Narmada

"If you are to suffer, you should suffer in the interest of the country.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking to villagers who were to be displaced by the Hirakud Dam in 1948.

Karnataka and TN at cross roads over Mekedatu river project

Ramesh Mali, a farmer in his late thirties, looks at his farmland nervously. It has been 13 days since the Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, 2016, concluded. The district administration had acquired his four bigha land (approximately 0.64 hectares) for the festival. The barricades and the concrete left on his land give us the idea that the land is not fit for farming this season.

Seven ministries other than the Water Ministry to help revive the Ganga

What do these two iconic figures -- Shivaji, the great Maratha leader and Sardar Vallabhai Patel, the ‘Iron Man of India’ -- have most in common? While one might think that it was their fight for the freedom of their motherland, albeit at different times, that is not all.

Centre gives nod to 170 eco- sensitive zones in the country

Nepal earthquake toll exceeds 4300

Strong opposition to interlinking of Gujarat and Maharashtra rivers

Narmada Samagra is a unique effort to keep a river, a water source and a faith, serene, clean, healthy,beautiful and pure. It is organizing its 4th River Festival 2015 (RF’15),  during February 13 to 15, 2015 at Bandrabhan (District Hoshangabad), Madhya Pradesh, India.

Narmada, a name that translates into ‘One that bestows happiness’ will, in the next 20 years, pass through turbulent times. The question is not of the distance or the journey that this river covers, but the various points at which this ancient river is intercepted by new, modern dams.