The Dihing Patkai Issue: It's time to blink

By disregarding or manipulating the law, state governments and the national highway authority hacked more than 20,000 trees—before a court stepped in—for a seemingly innocuous project to widen a national highway.

The biggest killers in this humanitarian tragedy? Financial distress & starvation, the lack of medical care, alcohol-withdrawal-related deaths and suicides and exhaustion caused by walking or standing in lines.