Senior Advocate, and Senior Support Group Member of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), Indore, Madhya Pradesh (M.P.).
Anilbhai, a senior advocate and a social and political activist of M.P., has been a support member of Narmada Bachao Andolan from the time of its inception.
Anilbhai has been in the thick of the politics of M. P. from being jailed during emergency to contesting elections as member of the Janta Party in the 1970s and the Aam Aadmi Party more recently. Anilbhai’s father, Late Kashinathji Trivedi, a senior Gandhian and a freedom fighter was the first education minister in the government of Madhya Bharat (now part of M.P.) after India became independent. Kashinathji was one of the founding members of Narmada Ghati Navnirman Samiti (NGNS), the organisation that emerged in M.P. in the early eighties, raising comprehensive questions around the large dams on the Narmada.
Anilbhai’s interview is therefore special since he narrates both as an observer and an active participant, the political scenario in M.P. in the 1970s and 1980s and the early years of the Narmada struggle. This provides the context necessary to understand the emergence of the movement against large dams on the Narmada in the form of the Nimad Bachao Andolan and the NGNS and in the seventies and eighties when large dams were considered temples of modern India. At the same time, it also presents details of these movements, the story of the anti-dam movement in the Narmada valley and important players of the time in Nimad Bachao Andolan and Narmada Ghati Navnirman Samiti.
Interview Duration:
01:27:41
Language:
Audio in Hindi, Subtitles in English
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