For the people of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, river Cauvery is not just about water. “She is the giver of food, literature, music. Everything that makes our life Cauvery is connected,” said Prabha Sridevan, former Madras High Court judge.
She launched the book, Cauvery – A Long-winded Dispute, published by The Hindu here on Tuesday authored by its senior associate editor T. Ramakrishnan. Ms. Sridevan said her great grandfather had been one of the signatories of the agreement on water sharing. Later her grandfather was an assistant engineer when the Mettur dam on the river was constructed. Her husband, as a special government pleader, made several trips to New Delhi to appear at hearings of the Cauvery dispute cases in the Supreme Court.
“It is difficult to spell what Cauvery means to us. Therefore, it is perhaps very difficult to be objective. Mr. Ramakrishnan has managed to be very fair,” she said, adding that being fair would enable a person to be truthful. “Cauvery is not just a matter of dispute between two States. The issue is much more complex involving many aspects, including demand side management, an area that has received little attention,” she remarked.
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