India’s war on Greenpeace | Samanth Subramanian
by Samanth Subramanian from on (#H1EN)
Environmental activists are being investigated, prevented from leaving the country and having their funds frozen. Why is India's political class lining up to brand them enemies of the state?
After deciding not to sleep at all before her 6.50am flight out of Delhi, Priya Pillai felt slow and drowsy as she handed her passport over the immigration counter. It was a few hours past midnight on 11 January 2015; Pillai, a campaigner with Greenpeace India, knew that two full weeks of work awaited her in London. At check-in, she had secured an aisle seat, which made her happy. Now, as the official scanned her passport, Pillai sent idle texts to a colleague in Boston and pondered a plan to visit a friend in the north of England for the weekend.
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