A sunken ship and a sea of worries

On May 25, a container ship sank off the coast of Kerala. While all the 24 crew members were rescued, some of the ship’s containers with hazardous cargo have either gone down with the vessel or have washed ashore. While the world worries about environmental pollution from this particular incident, John L. Paul finds that the fisher folk are more concerned about indiscriminate mining and the dumping of untreated pollutants