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" Munnar " // © Aneesh K K

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Indian tea production has been in severe crisis since the mid nineties largely due to neo-liberal structural adjustments in the Indian economy. The size of the tea industry, which is second only to China and accounts for 25 percent of global tea production, has made this a huge blow to the country’s agrarian economy. The industry employs 1.26 million people on tea plantations and two million additional people indirectly. As such, the economic crisis has had an enormous impact on the lives of local residents. In Kerala where I have been conducting research, there have been eight cases of suicide and twelve deaths due to starvation on tea plantations since 2001. Along with utter poverty and famine, tea plantation workers have faced increasingly unhygienic work environments, shattered social life/community relations, and withdrawal of the welfare measures previously enjoyed. The crisis punctured the isolated environments of the plantations and precipitated neoliberal reforms that closed down production in many areas either partially or completely. While many families remained on the plantations, large numbers of workers who had lived there for more than five generations were now compelled to seek work outside. Some went with their families to either their ancestral villages or regional industrial townships such as Coimbatore and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. These plantation workers have now joined the ranks of the massive Dalit workforce powering India’s unorganised and informal sectors. In joining that pool of workers, Tamil Dalit labourers are exposed to aspects of a caste-ridden society from which they had previously been shielded. The situation of Saraswathi, a female retired worker in her early sixties, illustrates the dilemma and struggles of the workers who moved out the plantations.

— The hidden injuries of caste: south Indian tea workers and economic crisis by Jayaseelan Raj

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[omgindiablog]

Munnar, Idukki, Kerala, India: Munnar is a town in the Western Ghats mountain range in India’s Kerala state. A hill station and former resort for the British Raj elite, it's surrounded by rolling hills dotted with tea plantations established in the late 19th century. Eravikulam National Park, a habitat for the endangered mountain goat Nilgiri tahr, is home to the Lakkam Waterfalls, hiking trails, and the 2,695m-tall Anamudi Peak.

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ഇടുക്കി: പാതിവില തട്ടിപ്പുകേസിലെ പ്���തി അനന്തുകൃഷ്ണന്‍ രണ്ടരലക്ഷം രൂപ സി.പി.എം. ഇടുക്കി ജില്ലാ കമ്മിറ്റിയുടെ അക്കൗണ്ടിലേക്ക് സംഭാവന ചെയ്തുവെന്ന് ജില്ലാസെക്രട്ടറി സി.വി. വര്‍ഗീസ്. പാര്‍ട്ടിഫണ്ട് സമാഹരണത്തിനായി മൂലമറ്റം ഏരിയാ കമ്മിറ്റി സമീപിച്ചതിനെത്തുടര്‍ന്നാണ് ഇതെന്നും അദ്ദേഹം പറഞ്ഞു. ”കൃത്യമായി അക്കൗണ്ട് കൈകാര്യംചെയ്യുന്ന പാര്‍ട്ടിയാണ് ഞങ്ങളുടേത്. പാര്‍ട്ടിനേതൃത്വം എവിടെയെങ്കിലും പോയി പണം…

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[omgindiablog]

Chinnakanal, Idukki, Kerala, India: Chinnakanal is a village in Idukki district in the Indian state of Kerala. It has waterfalls which are popularly known as the Power House Waterfalls. Arikomban is a famous elephant that lived in Chinnakanal. Wikipedia

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