jaundice. People have to understand that they’re just monuments to political corruption, and they derive from very undemocratic political institutions. You just centralize natural resources, snatch them away from people, and then you decide who you’re going to give them to. When I was writing “The Greater Common Good,” what shocked me more than the figures that do exist are the figures that don’t exist. The Indian government does not have any estimate of how many people have been displaced by big dams. The reason that there aren’t these figures is because most of the people that are displaced are again the non-people, the Adivasis and the Dalits. India doesn’t mow down its people. It doesn’t kill people who are refusing to move. It just waits it out. It continues to do what it has to do and ignores the consequences. Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions, it just goes ahead and does what it wants. The people also assume that this is their lot, their karma, what was written. It’s quite an efficient way of doing things. Therefore, India has a very good reputation in the world as a democracy, as a government that cares, that has just got too much on its hands, whereas, in fact, it’s actually creating the problems.”- (www.progressive.org). The Book is an eye-opener for Citizens to understand the system in India ; its corruption, the obnoxious nexus with World Bank that offers the funds and the International Community that implements the projects robbing the poor to pay the rich. Tipaimukh