On March 1, 2024, the online edition of The Hindu carried a report by Jagriti Chandra with this headline: “Jamnagar airport gets international status for Anant Ambani’s pre-wedding bash”. Seven of these cases saw attempts made to transport elephants to the Ambani-run trust in Jamnagar. Once, wild elephants were captured and sent to temples; now, they were being dispatched to this private facility in Jamnagar. First, why transport so many wild elephants to Jamnagar, a dry industrial belt spectacularly unsuited to the well-being of this forest-loving animal? Yet, as the cases of the Jamnagar airport and the amendments to the Wild Life (Protection) Act show, the Ambanis have a comparable ability to bend the professedly mighty Indian State to their will.

Source: The Telegraph March 09, 2024 08:37 UTC