Heavy Metal

‘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...