
Khanabadosh
174 posts








I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.










@TheBigGeek (3) During night patrolling on 27.04.2026 at 2:00AM, similar overcrowding was observed. On inquiry, the operators failed to produce valid licenses for late-night operations. In view of the above, preventive action was taken by closing the said establishments to maintain law…

As if poverty porn of 75 years was not enough, we now have weeping tree cutting anti-development porn, which chooses to ignore a quiet fact most Mumbai tree-felling (and India wide) debates ignore: India's forest and tree cover rose from 22% of geographical area in the mid-2000s to over 25% in 2023 (ISFR 2023).












