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INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IN INDIA
by Srinivas Kuruganti
Ankleshwar in the state of Gujarat and Patancheru in the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh are home to two of the largest Industrial estates in Asia. Over 5000 factories in these provinces produce much of the world’s supply of generic drugs, pesticides and dyes. Many of the smaller scale industries do not treat their waste. Untreated effluents seep into the groundwater with the result that the productivity of affected farmland is reduced. The air is thick with the smell of pesticides and pharmaceutical by-products making it hard to breathe.
The extremely high levels of pharmaceuticals in waterways used by the local population and flowing into major rivers, have caused worldwide concern that this is creating conditions that could lead to the rapid increase of drug resistant bacteria in the future as well as major environmental consequences.
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Srinivas is an extremely gifted photographer. Additionally he has social consciousness. I admire him greatly.
… one more for the count…
Good luck Srinivas!
amazing work! and truly inspiring! great work srinivas
what irony….drugs being manufactured to combat diseases in humans! what about fauna? and flora?
This is a story about the Industrial Legacy that the world needs to move past urgently. This story and others like it are the beginnings of a solution.
Sometimes you get swept up looking at the beauty..of the ugly and not so ugly things that Srinivas’s camera has fixed on…thank you for showing and exposing both sides of human nature in a single frame
Srinivas’s work powerfully exposes the dark under belly of the economic development, the callousness of politicians, and the misery of the impoverished. If you start thinking about it seriously, it’s hard to think about anything esle.
However harsh the reality might be, Srinivas manages to convey it in a manner which has a beauty of it’s own.
Wish you luck.
Thank You for sharing a reality that almost all of us would never see ourselves. Without photographers like you we would never know the unbearable hardships people around the world suffer. Our own difficulties seem petty in comparison. Great work, I don’t think that traditional B&W photos would have worked as well. We could not have distinguished the unnatural hues running through the environment. Color brings forward the reality of it all. Please continue to share.
Horrific images amidst such beautiful ones - very powerful. Amazing work, Srinivas.
Beautiful & Terrible
Srinivas, your work is majestic while graphically compelling. Thank you for sharing this story through your lens.
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