@Roy
Here you go mate,
Actually if a report is being made from this side the footages are taken
from Lalmonirhat, thats why Google earth might help, to expand the horizon.
Not that cool now , eh!
Couple of things.
My point is that, if the river is dying downstream, you can't just solely blame the Indian barrage for it, when you have a Bangladeshi one blocking and diverting the water as well!
Secondly, the Google Earth photo of Gazaldoba barrage on Teesta in India, is taken during a dry season. And either case any river around the world, before and after any barrage around the world will look like that.
Here's a "bigger" picture showing Teesta River upstream and downstream of the Barrage on Indian side. Not to forget that Teesta is a very sediment heavy river, which shows during the dry season.
If I had to do propaganda, I would take this screenshot from Teesta River Barrage in Bangladesh and flaunt it around.
Looks bad right?
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Thing is if India didn't divert water during dry season, Bangladesh would do the exact same. I mean thats the reason why Bangladesh built the barrage right?
Which brings us to sharing of water during the dry season. What incentive does India have? I mean India has poor people, farmers too, which it needs to take care of by providing adequate irrigation. Why should India care about the people of a hostile country? Surely there is no legal obligation.
As Gowhar Rizvi said in the interview, confrontation is not the way to solve these issues, cooperation is. Lower riparian alarmism and propaganda isn't really going to help. And if thats not enough Bangladeshis will also go ahead and call Sheikh Hasina "Bharati Stoog Dalal" for trying to improve ties with India.
Lets hope saner minds on both sides prevail.