Occupational Health Hazards of Earth Diggers: Some Narratives from the Bhati Mines Village in Delhi – Sonu Pandey
This is the story of Manju, a 45-year-old woman, a daily-wage labourer. When I first met her, she was waiting…
Legality, Precarity, and Lost Childhoods: A Story on Mica-Mining in Jharkhand – Madhubanti Talukdar
The children of Jharkhand, when not collecting ‘dhibra’[i] with the elders, go to school, or play, at the foothills of…
Rat Trap: Coal Mining And Oppressed Communities – Sujan Bhakat
The documentary film Rat Trap directed by Rupesh Kumar Sahu in 2022 explores the lives of rat-hole coal miners (Santhals…
Mining, Displacement And Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions by Bitopi Dutta (2022): A Review by Jyoti Das
The word ‘development’ as we understand it today mostly in the form of state-sponsored development has always been a matter…
A Book Discussion on Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions
A discussion on Bitopi Dutta’s newly published book Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions by Routledge in 2022.…