DHAB (JHARKHAND) : Sarju stands on a makeshift platform drawing a sand-filled bucket up an 80 ft mine shaft on the edge of a forest near Koderma. The shaft plunges to an underground landing area where 10 other miners are hacking at a vein of silica in the mine face and others are bailing out water and sand. In a clearing a little deeper in the forest, women and children squat on the earth, sifting the red soil and dropping the pickings into stainless steel bowls beside them....Read More
Source web page:The New Indian Express
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