Sabari project: lives paused by a rail line

Lives of over 5,000 families in Ernakulam, Idukki and Kottayam districts went off track a quarter century ago as all transactions related to their holdings were frozen for the Sabari rail project, which never took off. Hiran Unnikrishnan meets some of the landowners whose lives were stalled by the project, as discussions have been initiated recently for restarting it

Sabari project: lives paused by a rail line
Lives of over 5,000 families in Ernakulam, Idukki and Kottayam districts went off track a quarter century ago as all transactions related to their holdings were frozen for the Sabari rail project, which never took off. Hiran Unnikrishnan meets some of the landowners whose lives were stalled by the project, as discussions have been initiated recently for restarting it