A marble mirage of snow and ice in Rajasthan

Kishangarh’s marble industry dumps the slurry it generates onto a 200-acre site, where it solidifies to look like a snowfield. Tourists and influencers flock to this city in Rajasthan to take pictures and shoot videos, and the body that controls marble and other stone trade promotes this. The Hindu finds that the calcium carbonate waste is harmful to health and the environment in the long-term