India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in water flow every day
- Written by Parag Jyoti Saikia, Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, under construction, will be one of India's largest hydropower dams.Nayan J. Nath, CC BY“Hey Rupam, open the door. Take this fish,” a woman yelled from outside. I was sitting in the kitchen at my friend Rupam’s house in rural northeast India. It was the heart of monsoon season, and rain...
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