Rather than treat opposition to nuclear power for its hazards as natural, logical and an indication of citizens’ engagement with the world, [India’s] Department of Atomic Energy and its subsidiary Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd see dementia in it—a pathological condition to be cured by psychiatrists to be especially invited from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore. The government has all along demonised the Koodankulam project’s opponents. Prime Minister and the Home Minister, no less, vilified them as inspired by “foreign-funded†NGOs without an iota of evidence or taking action against them for such offences as they might have committed in diverting overseas funds meant for other uses.