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Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar is a social activist who has led the struggle for the people affected by the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project on the Narmada River in Gujarat, India. She founded the Narmada Bachoao Andolan and National Alliance of People's Movements and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Goldman Environmental Prize, Amnesty International's Human Rights Defender's Award and the BBC's Green Ribbon Award.
Medha Patkar videos
A Threat to Living Communities
Indian social activist Medha Patkar explains how the economic development model being imposed on India's farmers is neither inclusive nor sustainable.
(5:37)
Alternative Sources of Energy
Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, asks why India should follow a Western paradigm of development
(4:49)
No One Eats Dollar Notes
Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, rejects the idea that indigenous peoples must assimilate to a market economy that is neither inclusi
(1:33)
So we are basically fighting this battle for an alternative economic and political perspective against the present development paradigm, which is being imposed on the people and the market.
Medha Patkar
in A Threat to Living Communities
in A Threat to Living Communities