Submerged in rhetoric

Narmada evokes emotions, not negotiation

New rules for secrecy

Critics have condemned the World Bank's new information policy, as a mockery of the basic rules of informed public debate and environmental …

Wish upon a lake

Will Kalpasar quench Saurashtra's thirst?

No need to be neutral

NEW DELHI, August 28, 2003. At a press conference, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patekar said that the NBA would support candidates …

Watershed ruling on Narmada

The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations

907 km from parliament

In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh …

Age of dissent

Six villages in Madhya Pradesh reject Centre’s proposal to declare their forest a wildlife sanctuary

Tryst with rain

Following the monsoon failure of 1999-2000, two states - Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh - launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An …

Narmada, Bhopal are issues of democracy, fair deals

We need not have gone to the World Bank

India may have compromised her sovereignty over the Narmada issue

Wanted: an independent appeals institution

If the World Bank does not withdraw from the Narmada dam, it will undermine the credibility it gained from setting up the review team. US NGOs …

The contours of repression

The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project

Disappointing and poorly done

There is no merit in the Morse committee's philosophy which can be summed up as 'do nothing till you've done everything'

Thick-skinned policies

Dozens of families displaced from Gujarat villages in the vicinity of the Sardar Sarovar dam years back have returned to their original homes …

Much ado about nothing

There are no new insights in the Morse committee's recommendations

It's a damp squib

Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic-Christian thought dominate the report

A monumental failure

The report on the Sardar Sarovar does not address crucial issues like water-saving technologies, lowering the dam height and reducing the size of …

THE KING OF SMALL THINGS

A civil engineer and a farmer, he knows the importance of the relationship between land and water. Small dams are his forte.

Displacing a livelihood

How do we rehabilitate development project oustees?

We cannot turn the clock back

The need of the hour is to reconcile apparently irreconcilable interests

Dodgy arithmetic over Narmada waters

The verdict and after

The Supreme Court's decision, giving a go ahead to the Sardar Sarovar Project, has regenerated the debate.

Drought is in the mind

GOOD NEWS: There is more evidence to show that water harvesting can go a long way in dealing with drought and solving the water crisis, and even …

Political harvest

Report card: A scheme that can help solve the water crisis has become a tool to promote political interests of the ruling party Success level: Poor

Learning the mantra

Report card: The government realised its failures and learned from the civil society. Despite cases of corruption and some errors in planning, …