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Archival photo of a boat rally in protest against the Sardar Sarovar dam

Bookshelf

Flashback: Arundhati Roy’s classic essay on the Narmada resistance

25th August 2016

The Narmada Bachao Andolan began 31 years ago as a protest against the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river, and went on to raise questions about the very development model India has embraced. Today, with the NBA reviving their landmark struggle for justice, we are re-publishing author Arundhati Roy’s landmark 1999 essay on the topic….

Archival photo of a boat rally in protest against the Sardar Sarovar dam

Narmada Bachao Andolan

Conflict/Dispossession

Spotlight: The Narmada valley’s unfolding social and ecological disaster

21st July 2016

Its 25 years since the Narmada Bachao Andolan started mobilising resistance against the destruction of life and livelihood in the Narmada valley. Today, with more than two lakh people who’ve not been resettled threatened with submergence, that resistance is being revived. A closer look at the history and politics of big dams on the Narmada river….

A view of the Athirapilly falls

Countercurrents.org

Conflict/Dispossession

Athirappilly: Kerala’s destructive dam project that refuses to die

1st July 2016

Neha Miriam Kurian writes: The Left-Front government in Kerala is reviving the Athirappilly Hydro Electric Project against stiff resistance from local tribes and environmentalists. If implemented, it will displace the ancient hunter-gatherer Kadar tribe and submerge the only remaining low elevation riparian forests left in the Western Ghats, one of the world’s eight biodiversity ‘hotspots’….

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

12th August 2015

OMG… Greenland’s ice sheets are melting fast The Guardian UK An urgent attempt to study the rate at which Greenland’s mighty ice sheets are melting has been launched by Nasa. The aim of the six-year project, called Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG), is to understand how fast the world’s warming seas are now eroding the edges…