The Wire

From a hospital bed, a starving human rights activist, Medha Patkar has brought the biggest infrastructure project in a booming India to its knees. The Supreme Court has ruled that work on a massive dam on the Narmada river cannot be completed till thousands of people whose homes will be flooded are relocated and rehabilitated. Sonu Jain, Indian journalist who has been reporting about the issue, spoke about the most famous human rights activist in India, who has managed to evoke concern about the people to be displaced.