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As rising waters flood homes and temples, villagers protest India's $87 billion river-linking project
AJAYGARH: Standing knee-deep in the Ken River, with mud smeared on her face to symbolize a connection to land her family has farmed for more than a century, Bitti Bai Kondar is among hundreds of tribal residents voicing anger over an $87 billion government project to link India’s rivers. The mother of four adult sons, who are all protesting with her, has watched as rising water from work on the project has flooded her village. But the protesters say they’d rather die than leave their ancestral home without better compensation. Floods, landslides kill 15 in India, four in Nepal as rivers rise “...
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