Castaway Mountain : : Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai
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"All of Mubai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountain. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountain is covered in a faint mist, smog, or smoke from trash fires and flanked by a creek that runs out to the Arabian Sea. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knockoffs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and ragpickers came to live at the mountain's edge, making a living by reusing, recycling, and reselling."--Inside book cover.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Astra House, a division of Astra Publishing House, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 259 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781662600951
166260095X
SUBJECTS
Marginality, Social -- Mumbai.
Sanitary landfills -- Mumbai.
Human ecology -- India.
Environmental protection -- India.
Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions.