PONNIMANTHURI VILLAGE, INDIA:..... Read the following passage carefully : - "I can remember the time," she said wistfully, "when all the fields around this village were green and the harvests good". Her outstretched arm described a complete circle as she stood in the morning sun. "Then they built those monsters, those" Her voice spluttered in anger as she shook her fist at a collection of ominous- looking black buildings on the horizon, covered in a low-lying shroud of thick smoke. "They said that factories need leather to make shoes, handbags and clothes. They said our men folk would get jobs. They said we would all become rich."We stood silent, each thinking our own thoughts. Yes, they told you all that. But there is so much they didn't tell you. They didn't tell you that to change animal skins into leather - which they call tanning - uses as many as 250 different chemicals, including heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic and chromium.

Read the following passage carefully : - Mr. Sunday Nana stopped, frowing, a troubled look on his face. “In the last five years, 13 people have died in this village, my own elder brother one of them. They have been in pain, terrible pain. We have never seen deaths like that before. Lots of our children are sick. We have asked the Government to take the drums away, but they do nothing. We have written to Italy, but they do nothing. The chief says we should more our houses to another place. But we have no money to buy land. We have no choice We have to stay here. “And they”-------- pointing to the mountain of death in the clearing – “ are our neighbours”.