I read the quick guide enlighting the Narmada Bachao Andolan aspect. And in my respect, Medha Patkar is 100% right! I am a Technocrat from IIT Bombay..and technology never says to develope at the cost of living beings !
Good to read that you are a intellectual person graduate from IIT Powai. I think you should come to gujarat before making comments on any on going Narmada Issue. The 60 million gujarati people are facing draught since several years. Have you ever thought about that people who don't have drinking water which is the most basic stuff to live. I think you will not able develope that vision while drinking mineral water bottle in your office. Ask any farmers in gujarat who has ruined there crop, life and family by shortage of water. I am sure you will have more sympathy to them then Megha who is working to be in limelight by foreign money.
RE:Medha Patkar and Sardar Sarovar Project
by Sangeetha on Aug 22, 2006 08:48 PM Permalink
Dear people who are reading this, You may think that i am in no position to talk about this issue as i am only 14 years old but i seem to have a better understanding of this issue thanks to anand patwardhan (movie maker) and medha herself, and ofcourse my teachers.
the Sardar Sarovar Project will not reach the poor drought striken people at all. The water is really targetted at the capitalists who have already built factories where the narmada water will come. All the adivasi's will be displaced from there native place. the land the government has offered is not fertile enough to grow anything. since the only occupation they know is fishing and farming they won't survive in the place gov. has given them.Adivasi's have never bought things from outside they were self sufficient unlike us. the dam also causes natural diasters like earth quake which won't be that natural anymore. Ms.patkar is not saying that the dam shouldn't be build. she and the rest of the NBA are saying provide proper resettlement sites for the displaced people before increasing the height of the dam.
I am willing to give my life only if all the people realize why would so many people lie.
RE: Shut up
by bob on Apr 26, 2006 10:12 PM Permalink
You are a screwed up Technocrat. Doesn't matter where you studied and who taught you. Don't know why you had mentioned it. Do you think that everyone will buy it since you had come from IIT , Bombay. There is also a saying like " No Pain, No Gain". Raising a Dam's height doesn't have to do anything with Technology. It is to meet the needs of millions who need water. So YOU SHUT UP.
