In 2012, 50,000 farmers and adivasis from Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh undertook a silent protest march (Jan Satyagraha) from Gwalior to New Delhi to protest against massive infrastructure projects in their villages that were displacing them from their homes. Their demands included that the landless and the homeless get land for building and agriculture and the 2006 law on forest rights of the adivasis should be applied. A year after the protest, 80 per cent of their demands were fulfilled by the Central government. Swiss director Christoph Schaub and Indo-Swiss director Kamal Musale captured this protest and the life stories of the protesters in their documentary titled Millions Can Walk. The documentary will now be shown in India for the first time this week as part of the Mumbai International Film Festival at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA). 

Pankhi Bai from Kalhari, Madhya Pradesh, who was driven out of her home with her husband and four children due to the construction of the artificial lake, Ban Sagar, also participated in the silent protest march