A few months ago, the anti-nuclear protesters at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India were offered psychotherapy to "cure" them of their affliction. Yesterday they faced police action. Right on cue, the Union Home Minister Mr. Shinde detected a "foreign hand" behind the anti-nuclear protest as he re-cycled myths about unlimited "clean" energy allegedly indispensable for "development". Predictably, the protesters were branded "anti-national" by some commentators in the media. Meanwhile, many prominent scholars and activists such as Yogendra Yadav, Shanti Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal came out in support of the anti-nuclear activists and condemned the police action.
The full report and an editorial in _The Hindu_
Anti-Nuclear Protest turns violent in India
Editorial in _The Hindu_
Yadav, Bhushan and Kejriwal condemn police action
The full report and an editorial in _The Hindu_
Anti-Nuclear Protest turns violent in India
Editorial in _The Hindu_
Yadav, Bhushan and Kejriwal condemn police action
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