Chandrapur, India – Gokulbai Sahai, a 60-year-old widow, was waiting at the local government-run clinic in Durgapur in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. Dressed in a sari with a blue stole wrapped around her head, Sahai, whose vision is blurred, was being helped by other patients to figure out where she should register for treatment and where to wait till the doctor called her turn.
Gokulbai, who has to beg for food or depend on her neighbours ever since her husband died of asthma a few years ago, blames the pollution from the fumes of the coal-fired power plant near her home for her troubles, including her husband’s death.
