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Welcome to the armpit of India.
Alang, where end-of-life ships from the First World come to die. Beached along the coastline like dozens of decomposing whales, the carcasses of ships are dismantled, disemboweled and dismembered until not even a bolt remains.This is a place that progress purposely forgot, but conveniently remembered when it needed to defecate. No high-tech machinery here, no Makita drills and no Hitachi cranes, just 40,000 migrant labourers working in subhuman conditions, scantily-clad, unprotected, bare-footed, scrabbling with their bare hands to meet the steel mafia's quota and earn a miminum wage. Scurrying like ants on fresh road-kill, workers haul miles of cable out to burn on the beach, use blowtorches to cut through pipes containing oil and gas that often explode in their faces, and expose themselves to hundreds of debilitating chemicals that surround them 24 hours a day.
Just what do we think we're doing? How long will the invertebraete GoI continue its cowardly silence? And what about the respect for the judiciary?

Disgusting!

Comments

silverine said…
I googled and got this. Sad state of affairs indeed.
7:38 PM
Unknown said…
Silverine :Nice article! Thanks for the link. I guess the issue is much bigger than just Clemenceau. Wondering what we can do about it. There's a link in the Greenpeace site which says 'Write to the French president'. But I dont see the use of it, now that the ship is almost halfway across.
10:41 AM
Anonymous said…
I'd read abt this here a while back. It's worth the time to go through the comments, though the case is closed now.
12:22 PM
Unknown said…
geo :And thate led me here which I found quite interesting...
1:53 PM
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