Private Story
How Green was my Mountain
“Like a snake, if you leave the snake alone it will not harm you, we want the uranium to be left where it was, buried under the earth,”says Ghanshyam Birulee, a resident of Jadugoda where Uranium Corporation of India Limited has been irresponsibly mining for years, claiming numerous lives in the surrounding villages.
Jharkhand has one of the richest deposits of minerals in the entire nation and has therefore also been the breeding ground for exploitation of the tribals, locally known as Adivasis, who are the original inhabitants of this state. Folklores used to echo in these lands surrounded by the beauty of nature. Little did they know that these lores would soon be crushed by the haunting sirens of dynamite blasting to extract every inch of mineral there was beneath their feet. As their land burns in front of their eyes they remain mere onlookers to this endless greed still hoping for a miracle to bring back their lost paradise.
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