In a remote village by a gurgling brook dwells a tribal community. It lives in perfect harmony with nature, worshipping its many forms, earning its livelihood from nature's bounties. Its existence ignored for decades, it could do with some more attention. Better education and health facilities, for example. One fine day, a giant corporation discovers a wealth of minerals in the region, and years of neglect make way for blinding limelight. More jobs, cellphone towers and metalled roads change the face of the village. Until one fine day, the corporation leaves lock, stock and barrel. The village is orphaned again, this time, with no natural resources to turn to.

This village could be in the Niyamgiris of Odisha or Bastar in Chhattisgarh. The community could be the Dongria Kondhs or the Gondhs. And the corporation, Vedanta or Bhilai Steel Plant. The cost of such economic development remains the same across geographies. Only, it grows worse every year.
When Project S.T.R.I.P. premiered in Mumbai in 2009, the corporate farce dealt with the complex relationship between economic growth and the annihilation of communities in a Kafkaesque manner. Except that in nine years, the truth seems to have become stranger than fiction.