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29 August 2026

Film 'Our Share of Sand' at Venice Film Festival

While the film itself is a cultural event, the underlying issues of manual sand mining, labour exploitation, and environmental degradation provide useful illustrative context for GS1 and GS3 syllabus topics.

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Notes

  • Shalini Adnani's debut feature film 'Our Share of Sand' was selected for the 41st Venice International Critics’ Week.
  • The film explores themes of manual sand mining, labour exploitation, and class privilege in rural India.
  • Manual sand mining involves digging and loading river sand by hand, placing significant physical burdens on labourers.
  • Environmental impacts of sand mining, as per the Union Environment Ministry (August 2024), include riverbed degradation, loss of aquatic habitat, groundwater depletion, soil erosion, and flooding.
  • Legal sand mining in India is governed by specific regulatory limits on the volume and depth of extraction.
  • The film highlights health risks associated with manual mining, such as barotrauma and hearing damage, due to underwater extraction methods.

Questions

  1. Discuss the environmental and socio-economic challenges associated with manual sand mining in India. How does the regulatory framework attempt to mitigate these impacts? 150 words
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Prelims

  1. According to the Union Environment Ministry, which of the following is an environmental consequence of sand mining?

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