Labourers and coal workers working in coal mining

The residents of Jharia, that include a significant number of mining labourers are subjected to pollution of the highest degree. Moreover, they are seasoned to anticipate land subsidence due to abandoned coal fields and continual fires underground. Hope was provided in the form of a relocation programme, but it was never materialised.

The deteriorating state of life is captured on embossing print by Atanu Bakshi, who essays the story in white, which he describes as the non-existence of colour in the life of the residents there.