From banning IPL matches in Chennai to banning Rajinikanth's upcoming movie Kaala in Karnataka, protests over Cauvery water dispute are once again trying to draw people’s attention to a decades-old problem. Experts weigh in.
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Tamil Nadu government set up an inquiry after nine people were reported killed this week in protests against the copper smelter. Villagers complained that pollution was hurting locals’ health.
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How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
Nobody asked this project in Tamilnadu. If Gadkari likes to have it, then TN is not a place. He can go any where. Already TN is having water problem and if they destroy forest on the name of development, it will become another vidarbha or kalakandi.
Devadasan- What are you talking about the highway giving connectivity to villages. In fact the opposite is happening they are destroying so many villages and many people’s livelihood to build this highway. So instead of saying that this highway connecting villages I would say it connecting cities over the villages as in ‘burying down the villages, it’s people and their livelihood in it’.
Agitations against the Koodankulam project were financed by foreign powers and the same stupids are behind these agitations also. All these fellows should be thrown to the sea. This highway gives connectivity to so many villages.
Nobody asked this project in Tamilnadu. If Gadkari likes to have it, then TN is not a place. He can go any where. Already TN is having water problem and if they destroy forest on the name of development, it will become another vidarbha or kalakandi.
Devadasan- What are you talking about the highway giving connectivity to villages. In fact the opposite is happening they are destroying so many villages and many people’s livelihood to build this highway. So instead of saying that this highway connecting villages I would say it connecting cities over the villages as in ‘burying down the villages, it’s people and their livelihood in it’.
Vijaya What a truthful responce
Devadasan, I want to throw you into a volcano.
Agitations against the Koodankulam project were financed by foreign powers and the same stupids are behind these agitations also. All these fellows should be thrown to the sea. This highway gives connectivity to so many villages.