Title: Drowned out
Authors: Armstrong, Franny.; Wadia, Nina.; Roy, Arundhati; Spanner Films Ltd.; Cinema Libre Studio.
Publisher: Cinema Libre Studio,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project.; Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam (India); Indigenous peoples India Narmada River Valley.; Dams Environmental aspects India Narmada River Valley.; Dams Economic aspects India Narmada River Valley.; Dams Social aspects India Narmada River Valley.; Dams India Narmada River Valley.
Abstract: The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their village will disappear underwater as the giant Narmada Dam fills. Author Arundhati Roy joins the fight against the dam and asks difficult questions: will the water go to poor farmers or to rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 million people displaced by fifty years of dam building? Follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six year Supreme Court case. It stays with them as the dam fills and the river starts to rise.