ashu, you clearly gave two choices asking -- what is Chintan? 1 - A superpowerful activist? Or: 2 - Someone with no substance? Don't just try to be hypocrite saying "I think the truth is somewhere in between" as you are putting all your efforts simply to deny the second choice. Then, you explain that your align to the first choice is in ironic sense !!! Just I wonder, you might change your stance at some point and say you were defending Chintan in ironic sense !!! Too bad that you missed your own point. You tried to storm a few opinions on how to handle projects involving multiple stakeholders, which offers nothing new idea. Those are already established norms for decades that people ought to follow them in order to allow every stakeholders take part in a constructive way and to assure minimum damage to the direct and indirect interests of stakeholders. But people like Chintan have grossly misused those norms and have used them to hook up in agendas in which he did not have proper knowledge. Consequently, his involvement in a variety of issues has harmed much to the nation and public. Much to our bad luck that a handful of people like you still dare to carry him on shoulder, and promote dragging back the feable pace of positive development. I don't understand -> which one of Chintan's view did you find strategically appealing, particularly in the case of Melamchi project, to take into account NOW, why one needs to find ways to engage him despite his destructive carreer track record, and why to work WITH him and people like him NOW for no gain at all? You seems a kinda job-broker for him man - create some problem and bargain to get involved in. Any criticism on "bikasay" projects should be to improve weakness and to find out better wayouts but not to destruct and demolish the entire project creating problems in each and every minor issues. "Bikash drohi" people like chintan would feel rewarded if compared him to even a worst panchayati politician. It was rana rulers who maliciously attempted preventing development and Chintan carries the same quality as he is doing the same kinda activities but in a bit different tone. I can just wish him to refrain from regretting (as in the case of Arun Project) in future.