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... moved men to poetry . Not any longer . All over the world there is a movement growing against Big Dams . In the First World they're being de - commissioned , blown up.8 The fact that they do more harm than good is no longer just ...
... moved men to poetry . Not any longer . All over the world there is a movement growing against Big Dams . In the First World they're being de - commissioned , blown up.8 The fact that they do more harm than good is no longer just ...
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... moved to government rehabilitation sites . The site at Gorakhpur is , according to Government publicity , an ' ideal village ' . Between 1990 and 1992 , five people died of starvation there . The rest either returned to live illegally ...
... moved to government rehabilitation sites . The site at Gorakhpur is , according to Government publicity , an ' ideal village ' . Between 1990 and 1992 , five people died of starvation there . The rest either returned to live illegally ...
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... moved to is a few kilometres inland , away from the river , adjoining a predominantly Dalit and tribal precinct in a village called Samraj . I saw the huge tract of land that had been marked off for them . It was a hard , stony hillock ...
... moved to is a few kilometres inland , away from the river , adjoining a predominantly Dalit and tribal precinct in a village called Samraj . I saw the huge tract of land that had been marked off for them . It was a hard , stony hillock ...
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