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Father of 5, 45 year old, Gopi Bhunia poses for a portrait in his house in village Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. He had to leave his old house as noxious gases began to erupt from the ground. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. One or two houses collapse annually into vast underground caverns left unfilled by abandoned mining operations. Photo: Sanjit Das
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Hell beneath Earth - coal mine migrants of Jharkhand.
Father of 5, 45 year old, Gopi Bhunia poses for a portrait in his house in village Borapahari in Jharia, Jharkhand, India. He had to leave his old house as noxious gases began to erupt from the ground. Coal fires rage just below the surface of the ground, making it too hot to walk with naked feet. Residents who live above the furnace make $2 a day collecting small chunks of coal they sell to illegal middlemen. One or two houses collapse annually into vast underground caverns left unfilled by abandoned mining operations. Photo: Sanjit Das