ASHA: FYI: Narmada Film & Discussion

[Subramanya Sastry <sastry@cs.wisc.edu>]

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 99 22:12 CST
From: CHINGARI-FORUM <CHINGARI@macc.wisc.edu>
To: CHINGARI-FORUM@macc.wisc.edu
Subject: Narmada Film & Discussion
 
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                         *** A NARMADA DIARY ***
An award-winning film by Anand Patwardhan and Simantini Dhuru on one of the
most significant people's movements in India.
 
 
                       *** DAM(N) THE PEOPLE ? ***
          ** An Update on the Struggle and Discussion **
Aravinda Pillalamarri will provide an update on the struggle. She has just
returned from the Narmada Valley, and is a former UW student and local
Madison activist.
 
          *** Thu, April 22nd, at 206, Ingraham Hall ***
     *** Film: 6:00-7:00pm. Update & Discussion:7:00pm ***
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The Narmada river project is one of the largest of its kind in the world,
and if completed, will displace hundreds of thousands of  (mainly
indigenous, tribal) people. In addition, the project already has had
devastating effects on the forests and ecology of the river valley. The
Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) ('Save the Narmada River Movement'), and its
dynamic leader Medha Patkar who spoke at UW-Madison in 1997, have been
leading the struggle against this project, in particular the Sardar Sarovar
and Maheshwar dams. This NBA is one of the largest people's movements in
post-independence India.
 
The film Narmada Diary provides an excellent background to the struggle,
and Aravinda, who has spent the past year working with the NBA activists,
will update us on current developments.
 
         This is a free event organised by Chingari Forum, and
   co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, Indian Graduate Students
          Association, UW-Greens, and Amnesty International
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