As in The Waste Land, so in Singur. The scene at the defunct Nano plant mirrors what T.S. Eliot wrote: “A heap of broken images.” Kinsuk Basu of The Telegraph took these pictures while reporting on the clearing-up operation in Singur on Thursday
TT Bureau
Published 10.09.16, 12:00 AM
As in The Waste Land, so in Singur. The scene at the defunct Nano plant mirrors what T.S. Eliot wrote: “A heap of broken images.” Kinsuk Basu of The Telegraph took these pictures while reporting on the clearing-up operation in Singur on Thursday
LOOKS LIKE... MUNICH?
Yes, the exterior of sections of the plant still gleams under a cobalt blue sky. Eight years of abandonment and neglect do not show on the metal walls. From a distance, it almost looks as if you are being greeted by a manufacturing hub in a foreign land. But appearances can be deceptive
Inside, the plant resembles a dust-caked graveyard. Innards exposed, the disembowelled
objects are seats that never made it to a Nano
FEELS LIKE... MUSEUM PIECE
The skeleton of a car that became a carcass. A museum piece in the monument to an extinct species in Singur
A quick glance at the decaying interiors did not throw up any telltale signboards, stickers or banner. But scrawled at the rear of the plant’s casting unit was the name, TATA.
