One Tragedy, Many Questions: What the Sigachi Accident tells us about Industrial Safety in India

One Tragedy, Many Questions: What the Sigachi Accident tells us about Industrial Safety in India

Forty lives lost, over thirty-three injured. The blast at Sigachi Industries in Hyderabad isn’t just a headline; it forces us to look at issues of industrial safety in India. But before we look at the broader picture, let’s understand Sigachi Industries a little better. A Growing Company, A Glaring Gap Sigachi’s workforce grew from 494 in 2020-21 to 1,428 in 2023-24, nearly tripling in four years. Of these, 429 were non-permanent workers, the re…

STATICO confronts industrial tragedy and systemic greed in new track "Not A Catwalk"

Belgrade-based band Statico just released “Not A Catwalk,” the first track from their forthcoming LP “Absurdity of this world” scheduled for late August. The record will be a collaboration involving four labels: Out of the Darkness (Serbia, connected to the widely-distributed OOTD fanzine), Slovenia’s Onesnaževanje uma, Serbia’s Ayran Sounds (managed by the band itself), and Poland’s Refuse Records. Statico emerged during the Covid era, formed b…