To fall on deaf ears…
The Sardar Sarovar Project is one of the most shining examples of the adverse effects of a state’s aggressive developmentalist policies, unfortunately chronicled in the destroyed lives of the farmers affected in the adjoining areas. Despite all the protests, and living evidences of the progress double-standard, the project continues, attracting increasingly hapless sighs from people all over the country. Time and again, an affected farmer is brought into the limelight, eventually leading to a sorry state of affairs where even the biggest adversity doesn’t make the farmer unique, leaving him a statistic to sympathize with.
The documentary “Drowned Out” chronicled the series of events before the drowning out of a farmer’s village, and eventually the tragedy of the climax of the protests. An important watch.
A recent article in India Together reports about the life altering event in a family’s life that was the SSP.
Only to fall on deaf ears…
