Image: India - Sights & Culture - Rural Brick Making Kiln 02 (4040024973)
Description: Brick making is a common sight in rural Tamil Nadu around Chennai as the red clay is readily available and the demand for building materials ever growing. Clay is dug up by hand, formed into bricks and stacked row by row. Sun-dried, the bricks are made into a kiln which is then packed with charcoal or wood, lit and covered to fire-bake the bricks. Structures like these dot the countryside as the bricks get slowly sold and removed. It is generally a tough livelihood done by the very poor at the margins and doesn't provide them a very good life. It leaves the land pockmarked and unsuitable for later agriculture. But with the insatiable demand of the growing cities for bricks, sand and gravel, the mining and brick-making activities are not going to diminish any time soon.
Title: India - Sights & Culture - Rural Brick Making Kiln 02 (4040024973)
Credit: India - Sights & Culture - Rural Brick Making Kiln 02
Author: McKay Savage from London, UK
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