India, Dec. 24 -- The public outrage and media meltdown over the Supreme Court's order regarding the definition of a hill in the Aravalli mountain range may seem unexpected. However, this mountain range, spreading over 700km between Palanpur in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi-NCR, is quite literally the bed rock of the Indian subcontinent. The Aravallis rose more than 1.6 billion years as a result of the Indian plate breaking away from the Eurasian plate. The mountain range joins the Bundelkhand and the Aravalli cratons (undeformed layers of tectonic plates). The Aravalli's historicity is not just geological in that; besides slowing down the desertification of north-eastern Rajasthan, Haryana and even Delhi, the moun...