Daily Archives: March 23, 2017

Everydaychildhood: Ravi Mishra captures the choking fumes, chunks of coal and children coming of age in the mines of Jharia, Jharkhand

An aspiring visual activist, @ravimishra‘s work on human rights issues ranges from women to children, the environment to elections, covering extensively predominant concerns of today’s India. Besides being the Ambassador for The People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (@PVCHR), an Indian non-governmental organisation that fights for the rights of marginalised people in several North-Indian states, especially in Varanasi & Uttar Pradesh and founding @everydayindia, Ravi Mishra has co-owned popular human interest stories with the likes of @DanielBerehulak, @KevinFrayer, @AlexMasi and published his works with leadings international publications.

Amongst his works that have taken him to rural and urban India, across slums and red-light districts, religious congregations and festivals, secretive e-waste sites and election booths, Ravi’s exploration of unregulated coal mines in India and their employment of children is particularly absorbing.

Recently on instagram, he shared stories of children working in mines of Jharia, Jharkhand, where social and environmental costs of unregulated and unlawful coal mining are ignored, where families working in the coal mining belts across India are regularly displaced, where going to school and living dreams is impossible, where coal fire, fumes and scavenging is a way of life and where ‘childhood’ holds no meaningful significance.

Read these stories on @everydaychildhood and follow @ravimishraindia for more of his inspiring work.

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