15 NOVEMBER 2014 | FILM SCREENING | THE SATURDAY EVENING SHOW

The Sardar Sarover Dam in western India, the lynchpin of a mammoth development project on the river Narmada’s banks, has been criticized as uneconomical and unjust. It will benefit urban India at a cost borne by the rural poor. When completed, the dam will drown 37,000 hectares of fertile land, displace over 200,000 Adivasis – the area’s indigenous people -, and cost up to 400 billion rupees.

‘A Narmada Diary’ is a film by Anand Patwardhan and Simantini Dhuru. The film is based on the ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’ and it talks about the struggle and lives of people who are affected by the mega project of The Sardar Sarovar Dam

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES