CHAPTER - II Great belches of black smoke-probably packed with enough carcinogens to vanquish an unsuspecting generation or two-were propelled from ancient brick factory stack into a sky already dark with rain clouds. In an alleyway of this industrial town that was dying an irreversible death due to penny wages paid in far more polluted cities in China, a small crowd had gathered around one man. This was not a crime scene with a dead body, or a street Shakespeare honing his acting chops, or even