NEW DELHI, Dec. 5 -- Dear Shri Gautam Adani Ji,

First of all, please accept my hearty congratulations on your becoming the most successful businessman in the country, nay Asia. It is a different matter that your wealth was growing exponentially as the poor were becoming poorer, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Let me add here, I never imagined that I would ever have to write an open letter to you.

What forced me to make an exception is my growing distress over the happenings at Vizhinjam, near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, where you have been building a trans-shipment port which, I am told, will be the largest in India. The port will always be known after your name, not Vizhinjam, where ships, big and small, had been berthing f...