{"id":67086,"date":"2024-10-04T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/04\/the-fisherman-and-the-banker-film-indian-fishers-court-fight-ifc-tata-mundra-power-plant"},"modified":"2024-10-04T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:00:47","slug":"the-fisherman-and-the-banker-film-charts-indian-fishers-fight-with-a-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67086","title":{"rendered":"The Fisherman and the Banker: film charts Indian fishers\u2019 fight with a giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant\u2019s impact on their lives<\/p>\n<p>Early on in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fishermanfilm.com\/\">The Fisherman and the Banker<\/a>, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gathered around him: \u201cWe are not formally educated. We don\u2019t have formal qualifications. Our qualifications are that we can read the water and understand what it\u2019s telling us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story of a group of Gujarati fishers from India\u2019s Gulf of Kutch who sued the private investment arm of the World Bank \u2013 the International Finance Corporation (IFC) \u2013 began in 2015 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2015\/nov\/10\/fishermen-farmers-sue-world-bank-lending-arm-ifc-power-plant-india\">garnered international attention<\/a> before reaching the US supreme court, finally losing on appeal in 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/04\/the-fisherman-and-the-banker-film-indian-fishers-court-fight-ifc-tata-mundra-power-plant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant\u2019s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,589,456,493,65,767,1019,731,59,558,62,468,80,61,94,985,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-coal","category-conservation","category-energy","category-environment","category-environmental-activism","category-fishing","category-fishing-industry","category-global-development","category-global-economy","category-india","category-marine-life","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-bank","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67086\/revisions\/67087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}