Even as the country grapples with corruption scams over coal block allocations along with debates on whether natural resources should be auctioned or how land acquisition laws are being twisted to serve private interests, I am going back to a critical issue which is currently on the media backburner. It reconnects the dots of the Coalgate scam with the forests of the country and the people who live in them. For a long time we have debated on the ideal definition of a forest. Different people continue to attribute different meanings for it. Depending on what a forest. . .
