A documentary film on how market forces are appropriating natural resources that belong to everybody. IN VARANASI, WITH the Ganga in the background. The documentary is part of a movement to expose the subterranean war going on for water. GLOBALISATION is the new omnipotent mantra of our age. Dissenters who question the range of inequities following in its wake are pushed to the margins by our mainstream media, which do not admit uncomfortable questions. Thank God for documentary film-makers who go where it is unfashionable to go and who bring us stories of ordinary people who have been not only marginalised but betrayed in the name of development. The Rising Wave, produced and directed by the Australia-based duo Yask Desai and Shweta Kishore, is a 65-minute film that wisely eschews superficial breadth for depth. It chronicles the lives of people in Chhattisgarh and Tehri Garhwal in Uttarakhand, who have become economic and cultural refugees in their own land where their families have lived for generations. It is often said that future wars will be waged over water. The beginnings are seen here in India but so blinded are we by the branding efforts of India Shining and Incredible India that the ongoing war for natural resources scarcely registers on our collective consciousness