A Narmada diary / [a film by Simantini Dhuru, Anand Patwardhan].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Patwardhan, Anand, filmmaker, distributor.

Dhuru, Simantini, filmmaker.

Series:

Docuseek2 Complete Collection, Third Edition

Language:

English

Hindi

Subjects (All):

Flood dams and reservoirs--Environmental aspects--India--Narmada River Watershed.

Flood dams and reservoirs.

Water resources development--Environmental aspects--India--Narmada River Watershed.

Water resources development.

Human settlements--India--Narmada River Watershed.

Human settlements.

Narmada Bachao Andolan.

Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project--Political aspects.

Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project.

Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project--Environmental aspects.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 streaming video file (57 min.) ) digital, sound, color with black and white sequences

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [Distributed by] Anand Patwardhan, [2021]

Language Note:

In English and Hindi with English subtitles.

Summary:

The Sardar Sarover Dam in western India, lynch-pin 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. Ecological, cultural, and human costs--as often is the case with "mega" projects--have never been estimated. A NARMADA DIARY introduces the Narmada Bachao Andolan (the Save Narmada Movement) which has spearheaded the agitation against the dam. As government resettlement programs prove inadequate, the Narmada Bachao Andolan has emerged as one of the most dynamic struggles in India today. With non-violent protests and a determination to drown rather than to leave their homes and land, the people of the Narmada valley have become symbols of a global struggle against unjust development. But the dam building continues. If its height is not checked, the entire adivasi region of the Narmada will drown. In the name of progress, a relatively self-sufficient, egalitarian and environmentally sound economy and culture will be destroyed and a proud people reduced to the status of refugees and slum dwellers.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced in [1995].

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 01, 2021).

OCLC:

1245862201

Publisher Number:

ap-narm Docuseek2