India, April 11 -- Over the past few days, the University of Hyderabad (UoH) felt the tremors of relentless bulldozing of the shrub forest abutting it. Cries of peacocks, of the many "insignificant' beings", and the sound of rocks and boulders that are millions of years old being crushed accompanied this. But this destruction directed by the government of Telangana - aimed at auctioning 400 acres of UoH-Kancha Gachibowli land to private parties - has been met by the tremors of UoH student protests to save this biodiverse space. These tremors were felt across the nation and indeed moved the Supreme Court to take immediate action and stop the reckless destruction of the area's ecology....