Jharkand

In September I was sent to Jharkand for work. It's a state west of West Bengal (where Kolkata is) that is home to many mining communities and farming areas. I drove with some colleagues from Ranchi to Dhanbad, which is where I was able to take some of the photos in this post. It took about six hours in each direction, partially due to the fog and the late rains. In one photo you can see a bike with large bags being pushed up the side of the hill we are on-- the bags were filled with coal that the men were bringing into town to sell. We saw bicycle after bicycle being pushed probably more than twenty miles over very, very rough roads.