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THE REALITY OF MINING IN INDIA

According to Sahay then, I should have come across a lot of enthusiasm and hope among this population who either directly or indirectly [depend] on the Bokaro Steel Plant for a living. But I didn’t. Instead I photographed a poor and dejected community, eking out a living on the fringes of a mine that employes few local residents. I saw women collecting coal as lumps of it toppled from the huge trucks exiting the mines. Close by, families living in grotty hovels, were selling plastic bottles of petrol to passing motor vehicles. This was trickle down economics at work, honouring those who’ve been forced to sacrifice their land in the name of growth.…

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Tom Pietrasik is a photographer and video producer based in New York City.

Tom regularly works for media outlets like the Guardian, international NGOs including Oxfam, UN agencies like UNICEF and for corporate clients including Standard Chartered and Gartner Inc.

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