India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Buildings and sky scrapers are shooting up in every corner. Flyovers are being built to accommodate the commuter traffic and in order to raise these structures, the raw materials are blasted, broken down by hand and brought from the granite quarries all over India. Men, women and children work in these quarries filling lorry loads of granite, they are paid a pittance, and half is taken at source to repay loans, many suffer dreadful injuries from the blasting and have no money or facilities for medical care. It is estimated that there are 400 thousand quarry workers in Tamil Nadu state alone.