The runway and the roots: How a 1,000-year-old village fought a ₹27,400 crore airport
“Ekanapuram has been around for centuries,” said 85-year-old M. Krishnamurthy, a farmer whose family has lived in the village for generations. He cites British records documenting the village’s population at 500 in 1882. The Shiva temple, just outside the village, is over 1,000 years old, as is the Kamban Canal, a 43-km-long waterway that drains excess water from the nearby Palar river into the sea, he added.
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