India’s environmental movement is at crossroad. On the one hand, there is a greater acceptance of our concerns, but on the other hand, there is also growing resistance against the required action. Grassroot and radical environmental movements have played important role in global environmental politics. While reviewing major environmental resistance movements in India such as, Chipko, Narmada Bachav Andolan, Tehari Dam Compaign, Baliapal and Chilka Bachav Andolan etc, it is observed that, they differ from one another on the grounds of critical analyses, strategies, ethical motives and political impacts