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Author_Saumya Roy
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global heating
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India
Katherine boo behind the beautiful forevers
landfill
Lisa Taddeo Three Women
Mumbai
plastic pollution
Pollution
Product details
- ISBN 9781788165365
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 144 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'Roy has a journalist's unflinching eye, a poet's talent for detail, and a radical sense of empathy ... a stunning achievement.'
- Kiran Desai, Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss
'If you read one book about India, read this one.'
- Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure
All of Mumbai's memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things - medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal - a small, forgotten community lives and works.
Scouring the dump for whatever can be resold or recycled, waste pickers also mark the familiar milestones of babies born, love found, illnesses suffered and recovered from. Like a mirror image, their stories are shaped by the influx of unwanted things from the world outside.
But now, as Deonar's toxic halo becomes undeniable, a change is coming. And as officials try to close it, the lives that the pickers have built on the Mountain seem more fragile than ever.
Saumya Roy is a journalist and social entrepreneur based in Mumbai. In 2010, she co-founded Vandana Foundation to support the livelihoods of Mumbai's poorest micro-entrepreneurs; through this she met the community who depend on Deonar. Her writing has appeared in Forbes India magazine, wsj.com and Bloomberg News among others, and she has contributed a chapter to Dharavi: The Cities Within (HarperCollins, 2013), an anthology of essays on Asia's largest slum.
Saumya received residencies from the Rockerfeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Blue Mountain Center, Carey Institute for Global Good and Sangam House for the writing of Mountain Tales.
