{"id":20023960,"date":"2018-02-22T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2021-04-22T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:37:55","slug":"graphic-novel-there-is-no-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/justice\/graphic-novel-there-is-no-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic art: &#8220;There is no harvest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graphic novelist George Mathen, who writes under the pen name of <a href=\"https:\/\/appupen.wordpress.com\/\">Appupen<\/a>, deals extensively with the issues of sustainability in his Halahala series. In this piece, he adapted <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/2016\/12\/12\/there-is-no-harvest-how-will-we-celebrate\/\">an interview<\/a> with Dominic Huimi Kashung from the Citizen\u2019s Concern for Dams and Development (CCDD), based out of Manipur. CCDD was awarded at the \u201cBhagirath Prayaas Samman\u201d at&nbsp; India Rivers Week in November 2016. The Samman (honour) was instituted in 2014, as a way for those who have done sustained work or contributed (prayaas) to the work of sustaining rivers. The northeastern states have had a history of large dams, and the struggle of local indigenous people being affected by large-scale construction, while the benefits of electricity flow to urban centres far way.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23964\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/The-Manipur-Story1w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"1105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23965\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/The-Manipur-Story2w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"1053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23966\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/The-Manipur-Story3w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"1089\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appupen does a visually rich adaptation of Manipuri activists against dam projects that have displaced thousands, and flooded their 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