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Heavy Metal
Imprint: Pan Macmillan India
Synopsis
‘A powerful book’ Shashi Tharoor
‘A must-read’ Vandana Shiva
A terrifying investigative account of a global corporation’s role in perpetrating India’s greatest mercury poisoning catastrophe.
In 2001, a Hindustan Unilever-owned thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, made national headlines when a massive dump of broken mercury thermometers was discovered at a local scrapyard. As the multinational corporation conducted one hasty internal assessment after...
Details
416 pages
Imprint: Pan Macmillan India