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THE RIVER AND LIFE
Sanjay Sangvai

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At the threshold of the new millennium, a number of  people’s movements have been challenging the present, inherently destructive model of ‘development’. Theirs is a non-violent mass struggle based on coscientious civil resistance. One such major, popular movement in post-Independence India --  the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) -- has brought into focus serious issues regarding the paradigm and planning
of ‘development projects’. It has exposed the fraud, deceit and suppression perpetrated in the name of ‘public purpose’ and ‘national interest’, while indicating too (in collaboration with many others) the alternative path of just, humane and sustainable development, rooted in a truly democratic polity.

This book attempts to provide an outline of  the historical background, core issues and formative processes of this multi-pronged and tenacious people’s movement in the Third World. It is an empathetic and honest portrayal of  the efforts of a movement in a complex context, depicting the larger canvas in which it has been operating. The NBA, like most other movements in India, has long felt the need of communicating its issues and struggles in a clear and comprehensive manner. This assumes greater urgency in the present era of hegemony of national-multinational capital and its erosive ‘developmental’ paradigm -- undermining all human rights and  democratic values, usurping  the resources of the people, and devastating the environment.

Sanjay Sangvai, a journalist, has been writing about the issues and politics of the NBA and other people’s movements in India in English, Hindi  and Marathi. He worked as a lecturer in Pune University before joining as a full-time activist of the Andolan from 1989.

EARTHCARE BOOKS
Mumbai & Calcutta

An Insider's Story of a Historic & Tenacious People's Movement

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This long-awaited book is finally ready and gone to print! 'The River and Life :  People’s Struggle in the Narmada Valley’ by Sanjay Sangvai (Narmada Bachao Andolan) will be out by mid-July, 2000. A flyer reproducing the cover and back-jacket of the book is enclosed. The book will be priced at Rs 150 (within India) and $12 (outside India). In order to help meet the printing cost, and to enable activists and supporters to purchase the book at a substantially lower price, a pre-publication rate of Rs 100 per copy (within India) and $ 10 per copy (outside India) is being offered. Packing and postage will be free. This offer is open to those who send in their orders along with payment by the 30th June, 2000. Please order soon in large numbers, so that the book may be widely circulated.

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