Green message from the Bachchans travelling around the world

KOLKATA: A kilometre-long piece of cloth with 'Go Green' messages, written over it by luminaries including the Bachchans and Kapil Dev, is now travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole inspiring children across the globe.

NRI fashion designer Satish Sikha has stitched hundreds of messages, each written on a yard-long eco-fabric advocating efforts to save the environment from global warming and climate change, to make a single piece of cloth.

Claimed to be the world's longest eco hand-woven silk fabric, the cloth is being exhibited in schools across the world to spread the green word among lakhs of children.

Besides Big B, his son and actor Abhisekh Bachchan, actress Kangana Ranaut, ex Miss Universe Sushmita Sen, cricketer Kapil Dev, TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu, media entrepreneur Ramoji Rao and ad guru Alyque Padamsee have lent support to the initiative, Sikha told PTI from Toronto.

"Help this project and save our earth," superstar Amitabh Bachchan said in his message while the junior Bachchan wrote - "Be cool and fight global warming."

Kangana said, "Let's save our planet. Who knows how much time we have? Let's start now."

"My compilation of 1263 messages also includes inspiring words from geologists, glaciologists, scientists, doctors, corporates, professors, foresters and politicians from various countries," he said.