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Articles by Moushumi Basu

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Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands

Moushumi Basu October 13, 2009 Moushumi Basu

"I have had three miscarriages and lost five children within a week of their births," says Hira Hansda, a miner's wife. "Even after 20 years of marriage we have no children today." Now in her late forties, she sits outside her mud hut in Jadugoda Township, site of one of the oldest uranium mines in India.

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