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Why India Needs a Blood Sand Awakening Copy link By Rishika Pardikar Copy link By Rishika Pardikar February1, 2021 “I was attacked by the son of a local politician … and then on bed rest for a month. My car was completely damaged.” So begins the story of Sumaira Abdulali’s first encounter with the sand mining mafia, an aggressive group involved in illegal sand mining activities, in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. Abdulali, an environmental activist and founder of the Awaaz Foundation, started following sand mining activities in Maharashtra’s Kihim Beach in 2002 by “naively,” she says, lodging complaints with the local administrative officer in charge of the district. “In those days, no one really knew that sand mining was an issue. No one even knew that there was a sand mafia … that there was a nexus between politicians and sand miners.”

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