Amartya Sen’s felicitous metaphor which celebrated an aspect of an open middle class Indian society has been harshly disproved by no less a person than the mild-mannered Manmohan Singh when he followed the practice of Indira Gandhi in seeing a “foreign hand” behind democratic opposition. Even when the prime minister trumpeted that United States (US) and Scandinavian non-governmental organisations were behind the Koodan kulam people’s agitation against a nuclear facility, a seminar was held in Delhi
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/%E2%80%98foreign-hand%E2%80%99-and-anti-koodankulam-movement
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/vithal-rajan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/koodunkulam-aps
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nuclear-power-plants
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tamil-nadu
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/government-india-goi
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/conflicts
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nuclear-accidents
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nuclear-safety
