Capping the biggest mountains in South Odisha are some of the world's best deposits of Bauxite, the ore for aluminium--mineral wealth to bring prosperity to one of India's poorest states. But for tribal people who have lived around them since history began, these mountains are sacred--not a resource to be exploited, but a source of life itself, through the water they store, and release in perennial streams.So metal factories, built in tribal areas with a ...
