Dam/Age

Aradhana Seth
India, documentary, 2002
50 mins. (Beta)

Dam/Age traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold campaign against the Narmada project in India, which will displace up to a million people. The author of The God of Small Things, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1998. In her most recent book, Power Politics, Roy challenges the idea that only experts can speak out on urgent matters like nuclear war, the privatization of India's power supply, and issues like the Narmada dam project.