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Articles by Subhrajit Sen
West Bengal: How Climate Change is Supercharging Lightning Strikes Across State
As hotter, wetter summers drive up lightning strikes across Bengal, rural families in Hooghly are left to face deadly storms with patchy alerts, thin compensation and a trail of invisible survivors. 35-year-old Sekh Hasibuddin from Pandua block, Hooghly, survived a lightning strike in 2022. Since then, he has been struggling with multiple health problems (Photo - Subhrajit Sen, 101Reporters) Hooghly, West Bengal: On June 6, 2021, lightning killed 26 persons in West Bengal in a single day.
‘Sitting on a volcano’: Two Indian temples clash as politics and faith mix
The ex-showroom price of any vehicle is inclusive of GST. A reduction in the tax, from 28% to 18%, will directly bring down the ex-showroom price, …
Two Indian temples clash as politics and faith mix
Digha, India - On a hot and sultry June afternoon, Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of India's West Bengal state, swept a sun-scorched road to make way for a towering chariot in Digha, a tourist town on the country's Bay of Bengal coast.
The ore that breaks bodies in Bango
Sanjay Gope has been in a wheelchair all his life. I met him in Bango, a village around six kilometres from the Uranium Corporation of India Limited’s (UCIL) mine in Jaduguda town (listed as Jadugora in the Census), in Purbi (East) Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. UCIL, a government of India entity, dug its first mine here in 1967. The ore processed in Jaduguda and six other nearby mines is converted into yellowcake (a mixture of uranium oxides) and sent to the Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad.
Solar pumps increase productivity, profits of West Bengal farmers
Compared to a year ago, Sanjit Biswas now worries less about his profits from farming. A small farmer owning a one-acre farm at Hazarinagar village in Hanskhali block of Nadia district, West Bengal, Biswas had been struggling with dwindling profit margins due to increasing farming expenses, including fuel costs for irrigation.
In West Bengal, ambitious efforts to plant mangroves yield limited results
A 700 to 800 metres stretch of mangroves to the west of Pakhiraloy ferry ghat on an island in the Indian Sundarbans, part of a plantation project in 2020, was reportedly washed away by the Gomor river in March this year. At another 1,200-1,300 metres stretch right next to it, part of the same project, the mangroves survived the waves, but not the grazing pressure from cattle. As stipulated by the authorities, the plantation had been protected with nylon nets to keep cattle away.
In the Indian Sundarbans, lack of maintenance has eclipsed the dream of solar energy
Rows of grey cement blocks look like gravestones in an abandoned cemetery. The dilapidated single-storeyed house, adjacent to a field, seems like a setting for a horror film. Less than a decade ago, the cement blocks here served as bases for solar panels, part of a 110 kilowatts solar plant, which was housed in the building. When commissioned in 2003, it was one of the largest off-grid power plants in the country.
Photos: India’s largest coal mining project has cast a pall of uncertainty over villages in Bengal
Shubho Ghosh was laying bricks at a construction site, humming to himself. But the very mention of “the coal project” triggered palpable anxiety in the 26-year-old. As he later revealed, his family is worried, very worried. A resident of Makdamnagar in Birbhum district of West Bengal, that sits on a corner of what is said to be India’s largest coal mine project, Ghosh fears a double blow is waiting to hit the family in the coming months when the work for the coal mine picks up pace.
Photos: In the white clay mines of Bengal, ‘nobody cares about the environment and worker rights’
Rabi Bagdi, a man in his mid-30s who has a family of five to run, moves out of his home at Kabilpur village in West Bengal for work at a “China clay” grinding unit in Khoria, about three kilometres away, wearing clean clothes. He returns with a layer of white powder covering his face, hair, body and clothes.
A Jharkhand town powers Indias nuclear dreams, at the cost of its residents health, the environment
By Subhrajit Sen Anamika Oraom, 16, of village Dungridih, around a kilometre away from Narwa Pahar uranium mine in Jharkhand, wants to study. But she cannot, owing to severe headaches that come up periodically, triggered by a malignant tumour on her face. Sanjay Gope, 18, cannot walk and is confined to his wheelchair. Haradhan Gope, 20, can study, walk, talk, but owing to a physical deformity, his head is much smaller in proportion to his body.
In photos: India’s nuclear dreams are a nightmare for residents of a uranium-rich Jharkhand area
6 minutes ago Subhrajit Sen Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Comments Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Comments Anamika Oraom, 16, of village Dungridih, around 1 km away from Narwa Pahar uranium mine in Jharkhand, wants to study. But she cannot, owing to severe headaches that come up periodically, triggered by a malignant tumour on her face. Sanjay Gope, 18, cannot walk and is confined to his wheelchair.
The ore that breaks bodies in Bango
Sanjay Gope has never missed a step – because he has never taken one. The 18-year-old has been in a wheelchair all his life. I met him in Bango, a village around six kilometres from the Uranium Corporation of India Limited’s (UCIL) mine in Jaduguda town (listed as Jadugora in the Census), in Purbi (East) Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. UCIL, a government of India entity, dug its first mine here in 1967.
The ore that breaks bodies in Bango
Sanjay Gope has never missed a step – because he has never taken one. The 18-year-old has been in a wheelchair all his life. I met him in Bango, a village around six kilometres from the Uranium Corporation of India Limited’s (UCIL) mine in Jaduguda town (listed as Jadugora in the Census), in Purbi (East) Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. UCIL, a government of India entity, dug its first mine here in 1967.
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