Open-cast pit to eco park: India reinvents old mines

2026-03-17 - 03:53

CHHATTISGARH/NEW DELHI - On a moonless night in central India, Pannelal Rajak braces an axe on his shoulder and sweeps a high beam torch across the still, inky water of a lake. Rajak points in the distance to where the light fades. "My land was there," he says.