by admin | Sep 21, 2023 | Human Rehabilitation
It’s an unusual dream for a resident of India’s oldest coalfield, Jharia, where fires rage underground, bare trees stand guard morosely around mines spewing dust and fumes – and where coal has provided work for at least four generations. Kurmi, 32, was the first...
by admin | Sep 21, 2023 | Human Rehabilitation
As you walk down this particular wide but cracked road in a West Bengal village, it is evident that something catastrophic has happened here. There are crumbling houses all around. But one house, in particular, will catch your eye. It is the house of Tapan Pal, a...
by admin | Sep 21, 2023 | Human Rehabilitation
The richest coal fields in India are also the most precarious for workers and those who live on them. The threat of homes collapsing or burning down due to ground subsidence and coal fires — some of which have burned for a century — is a clear and present danger to...
