'Just four citizens': the Australians who confronted Adani in India, and made a difference

In this book extract, Geoff Cousins describes how the farmer, the activist, the tourism operator and 'an old bald man with hope in his heart' travelled to India to protest against Adani

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I settled back into the seat as the Air India flight took off from my hometown of Sydney, unaware of just how relieved I would be to return there. I had been warned the Indian government might take a dim view of our mission to intercept the Queensland premier on her journey to have lunch with chairman Gautam Adani, who would be intending to impress on her the force and majesty of his major asset, the Mundra power plant - ironically, now for sale for one rupee.

I'd also been told there was a chance that either the government or Adani or both were intercepting all my communications. So there was a degree of apprehension even as I passed through customs in New Delhi, since I was travelling on a tourist visa and the sites we would be visiting did not include the Taj Mahal.