They are being answered in one voice by every institution at its command the army, the police, the bureaucracy, the courts. And not just answered, but answered unambiguously, in bitter, brutal ways. For the people of the valley, the fact that the stakes were raised to this degree has meant that their most effective weapon specific facts about specific issues in this specific valley has been blunted by the debate on the big issues. The basic premise of the argument has been inflated until it has burst into bits that have, over time, bobbed away. Though there s been a fair amount of writing on the subject, most of it is for a special interest readership.
News reports tend to be about isolated aspects of the project.
Government documents are classified as Secret . On the other, as a Nehru vs Gandhi contest. It makes out that both sides have the Greater Good of the Nation in mind but merely disagree about the means to achieve it. Both interpretations put a tired spin on the dispute. Both stir up emotions that cloud the particular facts of this particular story.