The masses of Plachimada, through their long endeavor has rightly shown beyond doubt that they are well against being the victims of modern colonization, by overwhelming the threat posed by the gigantic transnational corporation. Plachimada has gained regard at the International level as one of the most widely deliberated models of ‘Wars fought for water’.
When the permission is granted to the Multinationals to suck the ground water sources the water will be in their control and there after the people have to pay for the water at a rate which the company decides. Ismail Seragaldin who was the Vice President of the World Bank in 1995 pointed out in one speech “ if the wars of this century is for Oil, it will be for Water in the next”. It makes all of us to believe that drinking water, indeed will become a scarce material in the world in the near future. Thus there emerges a situation where we all would be trapped in the web of the Multinational Corporations who are competing for the control and sales right of the fresh water sources. It is beyond our comprehension but it is the most scaring truth.
There emerges a situation where in we are forced to see the Giant Private Establishments, who only aim profit grasp our natural assets. Hence, it is the time for us to realize that such incivilities anywhere in this world should not be left unseen. The need of the hour thus is to lift our experiences in Plachimada at the Global level and make the Corporal Giants rethink themselves. The ‘Gods of Nature’ will definitely be happy seeing the efforts of the villagers of Plachimada to rescue the nature now having an upper hand on the Giant Multinational who once casted a shadow of calamity on them.
Time flies on restless pinions,
but it will be great to recall Sir William Cowper’s words:
“ Nor rural sounds alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
the tone of languid Nature “
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