Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai by Saumya Roy
English | September 7th, 2021 | ISBN: 166260095X | 300 pages | True EPUB | 1.75 MB
All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains’ edge, making a living by re-using, recycling and re-selling.