Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival
When houses and shacks collapse into cracks that open up in the hollowed-out ground beneath them, they have to live in ruins. Some crawl out of the coal mine entrances or scurry across smoking rubbish heaps like pitch-black shadows, dressed in rags, faces covered in black dust.
Photograph: Sourav Das
