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I wasn’t sure there would be a demonstration outside Vedanta’s Berkely St offices or not. It had been planned to coincide with the Indian Supreme Court giving a verdict on their appeal against a 2010 order by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) which had stopped them mining the Dongria Kondh’s <\/em>sacred Niyamgiri Hills.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Although the court didn’t give a final verdict, the ruling that they made was generally seen as a defeat for Vedanta, putting the decision back to a consultation with the local councils of the tribal people. So long as Vedanta are prevented from undermining this process, it seems almost certain that they will reject the mining.<\/p>\n So I wasn’t sure if anyone would turn up for what would seem to be a possibly premature and rather muted celebration rather than a protest, and wondered whether it was worth going.\u00a0 Fortunately I did, and so did a dozen or so protesters. Unfortunately almost as soon as the protest started, so did the rain, and with a vengeance. The protesters crowded with their banner in front of the window where they were sheltered by an overhang of the floor above, but I’d only made a handful of images, and it was coming down too hard to stand in the open in front of the banner and take pictures.<\/p>\n All I could do was to take shelter in a nearby doorway and wait for the rain to stop. Eventually it slackened off a little and I came out to take a few more pictures, trying to keep close to the line of protesters because it was just a little more sheltered. I might have got as close to the nearest protester anyway, but the rain perhaps served to push me a little closer, and I think it worked quite well. The woman’s mouth stretched wide open is the key element, but the angle puts the placard with the large headshot of Vedanta boss Anil Agarwal<\/em> with the added caption ‘Found Guilty’\u00a0 in the centre of the image, with the other placards carrying on from it. It’s perhaps a shame that the text of the end placard isn’t entirely visible, but I think there is enough to get the point of it. It may even be better to leave the viewer to work a little than make it too easy. More at: Supreme Court Nyamgiri Decision<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ________________________________________________________<\/p>\n My London Diary<\/a> : Buildings of London<\/a> : River Lea\/Lee Valley<\/a> : London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated are by Peter Marshall and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/small><\/p>\n To order prints or reproduce images<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n ________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wasn’t sure there would be a demonstration outside Vedanta’s Berkely St offices or not. It had been planned to coincide with the Indian Supreme Court giving a verdict on their appeal against a 2010 order by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) which had stopped them mining the Dongria Kondh’s sacred Niyamgiri … Continue reading Vedanta Foiled?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}