India's 5 Revolutionary Activists

Medha Patkar:
Medha is an Indian social activist. She is well-known for her role in Narmada Bachao Andolan. Patkar had filed a public interest petition in the Bombay High Court against Lavasa together with other members of National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), including Anna Hazare. She comes from a politically and socially active family as her father had actively fought in the Indian Independence Movement, while her mother was a member of Swadar, an organization setup to help and assist women suffering difficult circumstances arising out of financial and educational problems.

Patkar was often known for her extreme views on growth of country and liberalization. Author Jacques Leslie devoted a third of his book, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, to a portrait of Patkar as she planned to drown herself in rising reservoir waters behind the Sardar Sarovar Dam, against whose construction she fought for two decades.

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