A Sikkim tribe trying to save 'paradise' from woes of development

Type ‘hydropower’ in your news feed and chances are your search results will show at least one story about some human displacement too. One can go on talking about the advantages of hydroelectric energy, and there are many. But the truth is that India, and especially the Northeast, has its fair share of controversial hydel projects. From Assam to Arunachal and Manipur to Sikkim, every state has some controversy around the hydel projects.