If this the same Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, I want to ask you a question. We tried to generate the cleanest source of power hydro power and a big chunk of it too from the Narmada. What did you do you went on a hnger strike and stopped the whole project. Now you are also saying nuclear power is not good. Are you joking or what? How much power do you think we could get from wind energy. Solar holds promise but I dont think you have the right to comment to anubody in India about which power is good. Hydro is the cleanest and you stopped it totally. After the Narmada fiasco no government is even willing to do feasibilty studies on hydro projects which there is a huge scope for in Sikkim, NorthEast etc. Just go back to your NBA and shut up.
RE:medha patkar
by Batman on Aug 24, 2007 02:42 AM Permalink
shes the biggest fool on this planet... all she knows is how to generate poverty... No work just sleep sleep n sleep all day
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by Ramiah Ariya on Aug 24, 2007 02:59 AM Permalink
2. The more insidious reason why people hate Medha and the NBA is because in ou minds, adivasis have no rights. As long as the government does not demolish our homes in Mumbai or Chennai, we will be happy to let it do anything to poor people around the country. That is the kind of arrangement the upper class urbanite has with our governments. That is the same kind of attitude that supports this nuclear deal
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by Batman on Aug 24, 2007 03:03 AM Permalink
we hate medha coz she maes sure the adivasis live a rotten life like u r livin a rotten life Ramiah
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by deepak on Aug 24, 2007 03:19 AM Permalink
BS NBA ... There is no debate... Let them debate in CHINA, a country they love most... 5 stars activists from Delhi have found employment in pseudo andolans... These people are good for nothing, and left ignored...
RE:medha patkar
by Vishnu Sharma on Aug 24, 2007 03:18 AM Permalink
Yes, the Adivasis do have rights. The Right to starve because of your leftist policies. Rather than co-opting them into main stream and getting them to share in the building of the dam and getting wages for it. You want them to continue to live a hand to mouth existence on their tiny parcels of land. Well when a dam gets built, people get displaced. This is true anywhere in the world. The government should compensate them. But that does not mean the project should stop. You cannot make an omelete without breaking an egg. Instead of figuring out how to become part of the solution. The leftists are perennially thinking deeply on how to become part of the problem. The leftists want to be the road-block instead of the road to success. The days of the left are numbered. The days of Work, Freedom and Bread are not far away. The days are not far off when the Indian worker will shatter his marxist chains and joyously join with a song on his lips in the Nation building effort.
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by indiman on Aug 24, 2007 03:29 AM Permalink
The point is medha should keep her arguements to hydropower and Narmada Bachao Andolan. If the government couldnt extract enough power from a dam elevation of atleast 100 ft then that is a technical issue or somebody just didnt do their jobs right. Turbines will simply turn when a large quantity of water flows from that much height, they dont have minds to refuse to turn. Again the rehabilitation issue is the same its between the government and the people. If somebody is going to oppose hydrpower as a policy then we can rather be begging on the streets. But it is not upto Medha to say we should focus on renewable sources of energy because that is contradictory to her stand as hydro is the best renewable/ cleanest form of energy.
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by mr on Aug 24, 2007 04:05 AM Permalink
She simply want some issues to make sure that she is there for the money she got from various funds. He want these people in these dam areas continue to live in those water danger areas. Also, we don't have some mechanism to displace 1.5 million people who don't utter a single word in some largest dam projects happening around world, you know.
RE:medha patkar
by Vishnu Sharma on Aug 24, 2007 02:45 AM Permalink
These people have no concept at all. They want to hold a candle in the wind and expect it to illuminate everyone's life. Great go ahead. Work shy- Leftists People like her would not have survived for even a day in china Imagine her trying to stop the three gorges dam project in china. (More people are getting displaced in that project that the narmada valley project) A single bullet to the head would have ended her story. Ha Ha Ha. We Indians are very kind towards such people.
RE:medha patkar
by Batman on Aug 24, 2007 02:48 AM Permalink
absolutely right. We are cursed to have poeple like commies karat yechury and medha arundhatu roy etc. Bt we the young resurgent liberal india will defeat these curses and every other obstacle to make india a superpower
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by Ramiah Ariya on Aug 24, 2007 02:56 AM Permalink
1. First of all, we should remember that the Narmada dam's height has been increased atleast 5 times since building it. From the first time, the claim of the government is that it will increase irrigation. When their claim proved wrong, they sought to raise the height again. In fact, the power generated from big dams or the irrigation benefits from it are too low - and not worth the effort spent in displacing so many people. That is the NBA's argument. Now, you may not agree with them - but then you should be able to debate them. The problem (as Medha mentions here) is that there IS no public debate in India about the consequences of government policy. In that she IS correct. 2. We should also note that the Gujarat and MP governments have violated their own laws multiple times while dealing with the displaced. This HAS been acknowledged by the SC. So, another facet of Medha's struggle has been to get the correct compensation. The main reason most people have joined in the struggle is because that IS true - the governments HAVE cheated on compensation to them. Thus, in this also, she is correct. The problem is, the reason why "educated" people from all over India oppose Medha is for two reasons: 1. Because she is a leftist. And our "educated" understanding of leftism goes from the so-called China "betrayal" to the belief that we had to stand in line for telephone because of leftists. The proof is that many of the comments here DO talk about such things instead of the nuc
