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For a long time since the defeat of the NBA in the Supreme Court over the fate of the Sardar Sarovar Dam, Medha Patkar is not taking the headlines of the latest news as frequently as the previous time. Especially in regard to the movement against SEZ in the last few years she has been surfaced in the latest news many times in the last few years. By many she is considered to be the most apolitical face of India's greatest social movement in the modern history of the country after the Independence. Her family background of rare social activist background helped her to grow up with the changes and movements related to greater social issues for common good. Her father was an activist in the country's independence movement and a trade union activist all along his life. Her mother too was a social activist with an organization looks after the social empowerment of the deserted and under-privileged woman. She did her Master's in social science and discontinued her PhD in the same discipline from Tata Institute of Social Science with the immediacy of urge that she felt in the wake of the movement concerning the displaced population in Gujarat due to the big river dam project in Narmada. In the following years she received recognition from all over the world for her great contribution to the social as well as environmental movement across the south Asia which he started with the movement against Sardar Sarovar Dam over Narmada River. Narmada Bachao Andolon or popularly abbreviated as NBA is one of the greatest environmental movement in the world and this movement was concerned about the living resources of aboriginal people of more than four Indian states and environmental destruction related to this. Medha Patkar received several international prizes for her social and environmental activist role including Magsaysay Award, Goldman Environmental Prize, Defender's Prize from Amnesty International and many others.