Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar is a Mumbai-based social activist. She founded the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a campaign seeking justice for the rights of people displaced by dams across the river Narmada, and is the National Convener for India’s National Alliance of People’s Movements.

Pure hypocrisy: India’s fear of foreign funding for NGOs
By: Medha Patkar
The Indian state aggressively promotes foreign investment in all sectors but civil society.