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Dr. Dipankar Chakraborti,
Director, School of Environmental Studies (SOES)
Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Scientist, researcher, activist and crusader, Dr. Dipankar Chakraborti has donned many hats in his two decades of work on arsenic contamination of ground water.
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Shekhar Kapur,
Film Maker
A mob attacking a car to steal water from its radiator. That's a scene from Shekhar Kapur's film on water in the making - "Paani".
The acclaimed film-maker ('Masoom', 'Bandit Queen') talks about why he is concerned about water and using this film to express those concerns.
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Mohinder Slariya,
Sociology Teacher, Government PG College Chamba
We, operating at a supposedly national level, tend to ignore small town crusaders and thinkers. But you can't overlook Mohinder Slariya. As he critiques hydro electric projects in the Chamba valley, he carries forward a postcolonial discourse on development and displacement. Backing his arguments with field statistics, he establishes gains of power projects are too little, even those confined to apparently Project Affected Families marked in government muster. Clearly, majority of the affected people fall outside the musters.
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