“We don’t know the reason for the death of fish in downstream villages,” Hamberton Nongtdu, a mine owner from the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, told me. Behind him on a rickety stage were nearly 50 mine owners from the region. Behind us were nearly 20,000 miners, family members, and supporters of the coal industry, … Continue reading Broken Landscape: Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point