Alibi in North Sikkim

As Alibi in North Sikkim shows, the works resulted in extensive devastation to the landscape. The rivers were squeezed into tunnels, the mountains dug through. The dam’s call-to-work sirens marked time as the dust settled, layer upon layer, through the day. The inhabitants of the area were left to weigh their losses and gains carefully. Most conversations were ambivalent and uneasy, most points of view unfixed. There were no straight answers, just a foreboding of imminent change, a feeling that nothing may ever be like it was.