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Listen "20. Lives built on trash: the story of wastepickers in Mumbai - Saumya Roy"
Episode Synopsis
Hidden and invisible, the wastepickers of the trash mountains outside of Mumbai in India build their livelihoods by collecting glass, sorting cloth scraps and hunting for hospital waste. They are lives marred by precarity and danger, but also love and laughter.
In this episode we are joined by Saumya Roy. author of Castaway Mountain - a non-fiction on the lives of people turning trash into treasure.
about this episode on our website here: https://poverty-unpacked.org/?p=536
In this episode we are joined by Saumya Roy. author of Castaway Mountain - a non-fiction on the lives of people turning trash into treasure.
about this episode on our website here: https://poverty-unpacked.org/?p=536
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