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Gautam Adani saw a meteoric rise in his wealth, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Bloomberg via Getty Images From being a college dropout who cleaned diamonds for a living, to owning some of India’s biggest infrastructure projects and being a close friend of the prime minister—Gautam Adani is a rare but real underdog story. On […]
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After Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, India’s Gautam Adani Is the World’s Richest Man
August 30th, 2022 
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Why this Adani port project is being opposed by coastal communities
August 30th, 2022 Awake Goy Opposition to Vizhinjam Port Project Must be Seen in the Wider Context of Protecting Coastal Ecology and Communities The wider discussion on coastal areas often takes place in the context of their beauty and tourism potential. However ecologists place more emphasis on seeing coastal areas as very significant as well as sensitive areas whose development […]
Let the Vandalism Begin: Adani Strikes Coal
June 26th, 2021 Awake Goy He began on RN Breakfast by claiming that he, and his company, would be open and transparent about mining operations. But Lucas Dow, chief executive of Adani’s Australian operations, soon revealed in his June 25 interview that his understanding of transparency was rather far from the dictionary version. When asked how the Carmichael Coal Mine […]
What Anti-Adani Protestors Can Learn From The Jabiluka Blockade
April 4th, 2018 Awake Goy One of Australia’s proudest land rights struggles is passing an important anniversary: it is 20 years since the establishment of the blockade camp at Jabiluka in Kakadu national park. This was the moment at which push would come to shove at one of the world’s largest high-grade uranium deposits. The industry would push, and people […]
