April , 2006
The Bon-fast of the Vanities
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The facts should shock- unfortunately it is the personalities that do. It's been six years since the governments of four states and the centre assured the Supreme Court that most of those affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project had been found alternative homes and land, and every time the dam height was raised, the rehabilitation would go hand in hand with that. In its October 2000 order the Supreme Court said its go-ahead to raising the height of the dam was contingent on the rehabilitation and environmental impact being taken care off. Even so thousands of families in villages across Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are landless, homeless, and jobless. Its been 44 years since the foundation stone for Sardar Sarovar was laid, 27 years since the Water disputes tribunal made its final award, 7 years since work resumed on the project - yet we can't as a state,....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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