VIZHINJAM, India ¨C On the main road to billionaire Gautam Adani¡¯s planned Vizhinjam mega-port on the southern tip of India, a shelter built by the coastal region¡¯s Christian fishing community blocks the entrance, preventing further construction.
The simple 1,200 square-feet structure with a corrugated-iron roof has since August stood in the way of ambitions for the country¡¯s first container transhipment port ¡ª a $900 million project that seeks to plug into the lucrative shipping trade flowing between juggernaut manufacturers in the East and wealthy consumer markets in the West.
Decorated with banners proclaiming ¡°indefinite day and night protest,¡± the shelter provides cover for roughly 100 plastic chairs, although the number of protesters taking part in the sit-ins on any one day is usually much lower.
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