Field Notes: A Look at India’s Coal Capital

Pacific Standard Staff
May 24, 2017
Jharia, India: An underground fire, which locals say first started in an abandoned mine here in 1916, still burns as workers tap the remaining supply of coal.
An underground fire, which locals say first started in an abandoned mine here in 1916, still burns as workers tap the remaining supply of coal.

This photograph originally appeared in the May/June 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.

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