The controversy around tree-felling in the erstwhile Aarey Milk Colony is a revealing instance of this sinister playfulness. These woods of about 1,300 hectares are considered the second largest of Mumbai’s green areas, the first being the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. That was the Borivali National Park, of which Aarey was a continuation before the government earmarked it for a milk colony in 1949. People’s wishes or their health do not matter. The best trick the government had up its sleeve was that the Aarey region was not a ‘notified’ forest.

Source: The Telegraph October 10, 2019 19:05 UTC