[lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy: An Activist Returns To The Novel)

[Patrick Bond]

James Heartfield wrote:
> But I don't think it takes a genius to work out that a 
> Washington-based charity and the World Bank are not the most obvious 
> champions of India's people. 
You devious chappie, dear James. What is evident to anyone without a 
stilted agenda is that Medha and the NBA, along with the National 
People's Alliance, are the World Bank's most serious enemies in India - 
and that they *forced* the WB out of Narmada two decades ago, whereas 
otherwise the Bank would readily have funded Sardar Sarovar, as they are 
now funding many more vast and often very destructive dams around the 
world. Comrade, you are doing yourself a great disservice with these 
kinds of wicked insinuations, or with this surprising disconnectedness 
from the real world, or both.