Through the use of financial compensation and forceful coercion, authorities have been able to quieten dissenting voices in Arunachal Pradesh. However, those voices never quite remained shut and a steady stream of opposing noises kept streaming out.
Ebo Mili remembers that he was perhaps in class six or seven when he began witnessing and hearing about the anti-dam protests in his home district of Lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. That period, from around 2008 to 2013, was when concerns and vocal opposition to plans for large dams were at their height […]