On the sands of Tonka waves of Arabian Sea kiss the shore...
On the sands of Tonka hundreds of fishers thrive to prosperity...
On the sands of Tonka Olive Ridley nests and hatchlings...
On the sands of Tonka lies fisheries livihood to people of Kasargod, Honnavar...
On the sands of Tonka plays out India's worst legal spectrum exemplified through Chennai NGT Judgement of 10 June 2025: Appeal No.07 of 2025 (SZ) & I.A. No.39 of 2025 (SZ) with Appeal No.15 of 2025 (SZ)...
On the sands of Tonka beauty behind measure sea birds fishing delight...
On the sands of Tonka eyes focused of predators...
On the sands of Tonka Sharavati and and Badangani rivers opens their mouth...
On the sands of Tonka fishers strive to defend the shore past dozen years from 2013...
On the sands of Tonka fishers battled against constructing road on the beach...
On the sands of Tonka fishers challenged heavy Port-State nexus to run over them alive...
On the sands of Tonka railway tracks plans in offing yet claimed shelved for public pleasing...
On the sands of Tonka fishers houses are marked 'X' for erasing on 25 February 2025...
On the sands of Tonka Police on behalf of Honnavar Port Private Limited (HPPL) unleashed terror on fishers on 25 February 2025...
On the sands of Tonka several fishers were arrested and then imprisoned in Dharwad 2025 under instructions from Karwar Deputy Commisioner...
On the sands of Tonka are preying eyes of colanizers to impose Port for coal and iron ore packaged as "regional development" ruining Fisheries.
On the sands of Tonka is unbelievable accusation in NGT 10 June 2025 Judgement Para 47 "In fact, the Learned Counsel for the 2nd respondent would state that in order to oppose the project coming up certain miscreants have planted turtle eggs in the beaches of the Kasargod." And Judges believed instead of reprimanding the leanered counsel!
On the sands of Tonka we ruminate NGT verdict that voice of Public is not required to be heard by holding "Public Hearing" while grating Environmental Clearance...
On the sands of Tonka we learned how terrified HPPL is of Public Voices; we shall multiply our voices further!
On the sands of Tonka, Kasargod is first beach in the world therefore for plantation of turtle eggs!
On the sands of Tonka Rajesh Tandel and his team kept vigil to protect Olive Ridley turtle nesting and NGT Judgement refers to them as "certain miscreants"!
On the sands of Tonka peaked battle royal on 25 February 2025 fishers famous for dry fish got into Arabian Sea waters to say no to Port on the beach...
On the sands of Tonka Uttar Kannada police unleashed terror on 25 Febrary 2025 against local fishers and tagged them criminals with dozen sections from BNS, Indian criminal law.
On the sands of Tonka people 45 people including 07 women booked arrested from and 24 imprisoned for 24 days in Dharwad Jail without bail on 25 February 2025
On the sands of Tonka young 18 years old girl Apeksha Tandel provoked crisis in the administration when she addressed press conference rebuking police repression in her village on 25 February 2025...
On the sands of Tonka Police unleashed selective violence against young man Raju Tandel as a reward for his Lokayukta litigations exposing scams of Port authorities.
On the sands of Tonka flourished dry fishing livelihoods till Port captured the coast few years ago...
On the sands of Tonka are found footprints of brave locals gushing forth to uphold the flag of freedom...
On the sands of Tonka lies the call to us to play our role to defend fisher people, to defend serene coast, uphold fishers right to water, and lot more...
On the sands of Tonka lies an invitation to imagine and indulge, play our cards to safeguard the beach worthy still to build castles in the sand...
On the sands of Tonka there is a calling to intellectuals, writers, poets, academics, journalists, cartoonists, creative, and all those who love defend freedom to join shoulder-to-shoulder people of Kasargod and raise the uprising just the way there is world wide uprising in defence of Palestine fishers and other people...
On the sands of Tonka there are CCTV survellance cameras installed and electricity poles planted, road constructed and Artificial Lighting at Night (ALAN) in place, all done to push push back turtles and the fishers when 24 village men were kept in Dharwad Jail for 24 days...
On the sands of Tonka there is travesty of Justice in all forms: Around 1000 Police force of Uttara Kannada administer violence without name plates on their chests but with masks on their faces, NGT Chennai delivers Judgement without Justice.
On the sands of Tonka there is fading memory of the two people who pronounced 10 June 2025 National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chennai as sample of what could be worst imaginable environmental jurisprudence: Smt. Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, JM and Dr. Satyagopal Korlapati, EM
On the sands of Tonka there is tragedy of commons witnessed as corporates and private interests - hidden faces behind Honnavar Port Private - Limited decimates India's Environmental Jurisprudence.
On the sands of Tonka there is a lazy emerging resurgence of might with waves of the sea as its mighty strength; let's cheer as it builds up...
On the sands of Tonka there are whispers "so what if MOEF&CC and NGT and HPPL doesn't care to listen to the voice of the coast? We will still speak up and speak up with all our might, might of the Arabian Sea waves, might of gushing waters of Sharavathi River and might of our ancestors!"
On the sands of Tonka we realize we now need to unleash networks of mass collaboration to surmount the challenge!
Sebastian Rodrigues
