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Posted AT 12:02 PM EDT on 28/03/07

Starvation stalks Indian tea plantations

Reuters

Calcutta, India — At least 150 people have died of malnutrition in eastern India in the past year after the closure of scores of tea plantations in what investigators say is a unique case of social breakdown in a heavily unionized sector.

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