For 35 years, Adhurai fought against Grasim Industries for polluting the environment in his village in Kerala. No one heard him. But after he died of cancer induced by the pollution, a mass agitation threatens to down Grasim s shutters forever

India s economic growth has come at a terrible price. In two decades, while the GDP more than doubled, vehicular pollution increased eight times over and industrial pollution by four times. But policy makers have consistently underscored the cost of death

Emissions from two stroke vehicles and diesel have contributed to the eight fold rise in vehicular pollution in two decades

Industrial production threatens to shroud all economic development activities in layers of smog