Who is Arundhati Roy? What is her role in Narmada bachao andolan?
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Arundhati Roy furious at dam decision
As India's government presses on with its water scheme, the Booker-winning novelist dismisses Supreme Court ruling
Peter Popham @peterpophamSunday 22 October 2000 00:00
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When work resumes on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the state of Gujarat in nine days, two visions of India will be pitted against each other.
When work resumes on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the state of Gujarat in nine days, two visions of India will be pitted against each other.
Work on India's biggest dam has been stalled for six years while opponents and supporters slugged it out in the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, by a majority verdict, judges gave the dam a green light.
The concrete mixers will start churning again on 31 October. But tomorrow, Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize winner and prominent anti-dam campaigner, and thousands of the small farmers and landless peasants threatened by the Sardar Sarovar, will meet at the town of Badwani, on the edge of the area the dam will ultimately submerge, to protest and plan their next move.
"I don't want any longer to say the movement should be violent or non-violent," Roy told the Independent on Sunday. "The people affected by the project should make that decision. We live in our little islands of privilege amid terrible dispossession - we always live with the fear of what is just outside our door. We know all resources are scarce, so we have an almost religious respect for institutions like the Supreme Court to protect our interests.
"I don't respect the court as an institution: I know it is as much a part of the system as anything else. It offers shelter to the privileged. The other India stands outside the pale."
As India's government presses on with its water scheme, the Booker-winning novelist dismisses Supreme Court ruling
Peter Popham @peterpophamSunday 22 October 2000 00:00
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The Independent
When work resumes on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the state of Gujarat in nine days, two visions of India will be pitted against each other.
When work resumes on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the state of Gujarat in nine days, two visions of India will be pitted against each other.
Work on India's biggest dam has been stalled for six years while opponents and supporters slugged it out in the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, by a majority verdict, judges gave the dam a green light.
The concrete mixers will start churning again on 31 October. But tomorrow, Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize winner and prominent anti-dam campaigner, and thousands of the small farmers and landless peasants threatened by the Sardar Sarovar, will meet at the town of Badwani, on the edge of the area the dam will ultimately submerge, to protest and plan their next move.
"I don't want any longer to say the movement should be violent or non-violent," Roy told the Independent on Sunday. "The people affected by the project should make that decision. We live in our little islands of privilege amid terrible dispossession - we always live with the fear of what is just outside our door. We know all resources are scarce, so we have an almost religious respect for institutions like the Supreme Court to protect our interests.
"I don't respect the court as an institution: I know it is as much a part of the system as anything else. It offers shelter to the privileged. The other India stands outside the pale."
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An Indian author, Ms Arundhati Roy, is the winner of the 1997 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her "The God of Small Things". She has also involved in several political activist and lend her hand in human rights and environmental causes. She was also raised her voice in Narmad Bachao Andolan. He argued, affected people can take whether it is violent or non-violent way to stop the construction. Even she was not ready to accept the court direction, though she told she respect the court as an institution.
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