TY - BOOK AU - Jamal, Anwar AU - Singh, Sehjo AU - Sheikh,Salim AU - Rakesh, Pankaj AU - Amir,Zoobie ED - Under construction TI - Call of the bhagirathi U1 - 551.483 PY - 1992/// CY - New Delhi PB - Octave Communications KW - Environment, dam, development, documentary films, displacement ecology rights, water conservation, hydro electricity N1 - Origionaly produced in 1992; The big costs of big dams. Why, we ask, so much human pain and anguish, why the need to take such colossal risks? Is it the insatiable needs of the city for water and electric power which makes it insensitive to the fate of the people from where these things are got from? Can we really keep up this kind of development? Already we have lost so much of what is our real wealth, the soil and water... - Sunderlal Bahuguna Environmental Activist. The film predicted the devastating earthquake of Uttarkashi. If the earthquake occurs now and the Dam breaks, Rishikesh will be 200 feet under water in 57 minutes or less; and Haridwar in 69 minutes ER -