They are lined with the inhaled red dust from which springs a slow, silent disease – silicosis. Silicosis is not new. It has lingered in India’s mines, quarries and stone-cutting factories in ...
At the age of 17, Urmila Yadav became one of the youngest certified cases of silicosis in India On a recent summer morning, Urmila Yadav set off for the main temple in the village of Budhpura ...