Sonali Huria is a PhD research scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia Central University and her doctoral research focuses on the people’s movement in India against nuclear energy.
Sonali Huria is a PhD research scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia Central University and her doctoral research focuses on the people’s movement in India against nuclear energy.
The Koodankulam anti-nuclear movement intensified following the catastrophic Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan in 2011. The accident, coupled with Tamil Nadu’s memory of the devastating Tsunami of 2004, and state apathy to the people’s concerns, all played a role in invigorating the agitation, which was met with unprecedented repression by the State.