Tamil Nadu wakes up to granite plunder

Aflock of wild grey pigeons flutters against the white bedrock of the hill and the emerald green pool of water. But nature's beauty is deceptive. The water pond, now a few hundred feet deep, is a granite quarry. As the sun beats down, the terrain in Keelayur near Madurai reveals a series of such excavations carried out across a once lush green landscape in southern Tamil Nadu.

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