Decade-long struggle in 16 minutes – Indian Express News
CHENNAI: The 10-year struggle and miseries faced by factory workers and their families, exposed to mercury in the Hindustan Unilever thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, was poignantly depicted in the documentary Mercury in the Mist. As the 16-minute film delved on the lives of the workers and the poisoned ecology of Kodaikanal, it also brought to […]
Poisoned ground – Frontline
Hindustan Unilever is avoiding its responsibilities to its workers exposed to mercury in the thermometer factory it owned in Kodaikanal. IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly taking away the material that had been sitting for five years […]