"The fishermen, farmers and cigarette rollers sitting on mats in front of the St. Lourdes Church had a few demands: Halt work on the nearby Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Answer our questions. Convince us the technology is safe.
Their concerns were hardly unusual: Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster - which marked its one-year anniversary this month - sparked safety concerns worldwide.
A bit more unusual, though, has been the Indian government's response to villagers in this hot, dusty southern fishing hamlet.
Late last month in an American science journal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused U.S. and Scandinavian civic groups of funding the protests to hold back India's development."
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