Meghalaya tribal award for Al Gore

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Rulers of some of South Asia's oldest kingdoms have chosen a former New World vice-president to confer their first global award.

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"We have zeroed in on former US vice-president Al Gore for the first Rajya Sabha Grassroots Democracy Advisory Council (RSGDAC) award for promoting awareness worldwide on global warming," Meghalaya's lone RS member Robert Kharshiing told HT.

Gore will be awarded for his hard-hitting environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won three Academy Awards. The award will be handed over at the second Dorbar Ri (People's Parliament) on October 6 near a sacred forest at Mawphlang village, which has been preserved untouched for over 700 years.

But why Gore? "Because he deserves it. Besides, we wanted someone of his statue to be associated with a tiny part of this world that could be a victim of global warming," Kharshiing said.