The Wire, 29-Sep-22: “When PM Modi calls people forcibly displaced by ‘development’ projects and who are fighting for their own survival, ‘urban Naxals’, he not only demeans people’s struggles but also ignores government actors who actually delayed the project.” Response to PM Narendra Modi’s allegation: https://thewire.in/rights/who-indeed-are-the-urban-naxals-who-delayed-the-sardar-sarovar-project
Gaon Connection, 6-April-22: Sardar Sarovar Project, the Statue of Unity and the dispossessed Adivasis (gaonconnection.com)
The Bastion, 30th September 21: “Sangharsh ke Sangeet: Songs of the Narmada Bachao Andolan…We spoke to Nandini Oza, Archivist of the Oral Histories of the Narmada Struggle to learn more about the role of music, the kind of songs that were sung, and to understand how music shaped protests around the Andolan.” https://thebastion.co.in/politics-and/environment/conservation-and-development/sangharsh-ke-sangeet-songs-of-the-narmada-bachao-andolan/?fbclid=IwAR3yQKVBsW7Ms60oULK9faWYdddDbPvYlK83CC2taUHbHvr8OINFbrKadtg
The Hindu, 13th August 21: “Those displaced by development projects have nowhere to return…The archivist and activist on curating the oral history of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and its importance as a movement of the marginalised”
https://www.thehindu.com/society/those-displaced-by-development-projects-have-nowhere-to-return-nandini-oza/article35891772.ece/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR2bvNxxi-DwlO-L3ZlS9Qx1yuWc0nB_4FU_TE5U7DDILT49N9-Qhr5mdA0
Whose Knowledge? 11th August 21: “Development Induced Forced Displacement: Voices of Women from the Narmada Valley“. https://whoseknowledge.org/voices-of-women-from-the-narmada-valley/
The Wire (Hindi) 16th May 21: गुजरात ‘मॉडल’ को चुनौती देने वाले केवड़िया कॉलोनी संघर्ष का पुनरावलोकन http://thewirehindi.com/169759/revisiting-the-kevadia-colony-struggle-that-challenged-the-gujarat-model/?fbclid=IwAR2urfRP5ZkJTN5iP4Gw2PfQDcoIKJWVbgWDC5dmMl9vVHJ7W6ORDIToJvA
The Wire (English) 6th May 21: Revisiting the Kevadia Colony Struggle That Challenged the ‘Gujarat Model’ https://thewire.in/rights/revisiting-the-kevadia-colony-struggle-that-challenged-the-gujarat-model
The Wire (English) 5th February 21: Mulshi Satyagraha: Remembering India’s First Anti-Dam Struggle in its 100th Year https://thewire.in/rights/mulshi-satyagraha-remembering-indias-first-anti-dam-struggle-in-its-100th-year
The Wire (Marathi) 18th April 21: मुळशी सत्याग्रह : पहिल्या धरणविरोधी लढ्याची शतकपूर्ती https://thewire.in/rights/mulshi-satyagraha-remembering-indias-first-anti-dam-struggle-in-its-100th-year
Counterview 18th October 2020: Soul of Narmada movement, Jagannath kaka absolves Nehru of sanctioning High Dam
Jagannath Bhai Patidar, popularly known as Kaka, one of the leading members of NBA is sadly is no more. These are some important excerpts from the oral history narrated by Kaka of the struggle against the SSP that began in Madhya Pradesh in the decade of 1970s. This kind of a history is not shared often by the persons affected by the project although they have lived through this history with depth and insight. In his oral history; Kaka challenges the popular belief that the large dam on the River Narmada, the SSP, is the contribution of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. CounterView, 18 October 2020
नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन में अंतिम दम तक लड़ते रहे ‘काका
जगन्नाथभाई पाटीदार (काका), का मौखिक इतिहास प्रचलित मान्यता कि सरदार सरोवर का नर्मदा नदी पर ऊंचा बांध जवाहरलाल नेहरू की देन है, को खंडित करके बांध की ऊंचाई बढ़ाने में जनता पार्टी और मोरारजी देसाई की भूमिका क्या रही, बताता है, डाउन टू अर्थ, 9 October 2020
“Who Remembers The Temple Destruction In The Narmada Valley?” Photo Essay on destruction of religious sites by the Sardar Sarovar Dam by Nandini Oza, Raiot. 5 August 2020
Interview with Nandini Oza by Media Anthropology Research Collective-South Asia: “Interviews and oral histories are important methodological tools for any ethnographic or anthropological study. In this post, we talk to Nandini Oza, the President of the Oral History Association of India to draw from her extensive experience of using this in her work to understand its myriad nuances. ” 2 June 2020
Resettled Oustees from Narmada Valley – A Flawed Survey By Shripad Dharmadhikary and Nandini Oza, EPW, 23 March 2019
A response to “Are Resettled Oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project ‘Better Off’ Today?” by Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar and Neeraj Kaushal finds that the survey findings do not support the conclusion drawn by the article about the oustees being better off.
Keynote presentation by Nandini Oza at the Fourth Annual Conference – Oral History Association of India at the Ambedkar University, Delhi, Counterview, 1 February 2019
No, Swaminathan Aiyar, Adivasis ousted by the Narmada project aren’t lovin’ it. They are desperate
Response by Nandini Oza and Shripad Dharmadhikary, Scroll, September 2017
by Nandini Oza, EPW, 11 April 2015 .
This response to Gandhi’s “Independence and Social Justice” cites two such instances”. One of them is about the Mulshi dam built by the Tatas in Maharashtra.
How modest offices of Narmada Bachao Andolan coordinated non-violent struggle in Narmada Valley
by Nandini Oza, Counterview, 5 September 2018
The history of the Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal
as written by ex-Prime Minister Morarji Desai in his autobiography, Maru Jeevan Vrutant, in Guajarati and translated here in English by Nandini Oza for wider readership.
Letter by Bava Mahariya of Jalsindhi to the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijay Singh
Jansatta, 22 March 1994