India, April 19 -- By Dr. Vishweshwaraiah Prakash, FRSC, Former CFTRI Director

After reading about the massacre of 40 heritage trees, I have been contemplating what can be done now, both short-term and long-term, for the past two days.

To recall India's history, we know of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre at Amritsar recorded as one of the treacherous acts of killing innocent humans during the British rule and it happened on Apr. 13, 1919. This tree cutting in the middle of night also happened on Apr. 13, 2025. A coincidence!?

This is a brutal act not only to the trees but also the birds which used to rest in their nests with their young ones in the night. Those trees never saw the sunrise of Apr. 13. Yesterday, having seen the trunks and...