Visualise this Dam Supporters: Say by some twist of circumstance the area around where you are staying at the moment is deemed rich in OIL reserves and for that matter the government decides to mine it by driving you, your family and your entire town out of your homes. But of course before that, it decides arbitrarily and unilaterally on a compensation package without taking any of you in confidence. It then sends touts in the region to fleece a portion off whatever little you are entitled in Cash (which the Narmada States Tribunal has deemed illegal) or say if it is Land, it is some place which is cut off from civilisation and where you have no clue how to sustain yourself. Worse, in case you peacefully agitate they say you are a traitor to the larger national cause. Not just that but if you resist, they blank you out as a statistic, play the media to their advantage and send police reinforcements to forcibly throw you out of a place where you and your family have stayed for so long? Would you then have the guts and the temerity to turn on a Medha Patkar who will be yet again fighting for your just rehabilitation? Or would you valiantly sacrifice ALL for THE LARGER NATIONAL GOOD?
