Open-cast pit to eco park: India reinvents old mines

In central India, a local man named Pannelal Rajak stood by a lake at night. He carried an axe on his shoulder and shone a torch on the lake’s surface. Rajak pointed toward the distant edge of the water. He said his former land was there. The land is now submerged under the water body formed at the site. The light from his torch faded into the darkness over the lake.