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A Different World
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This work is an extensive long-term research oriented work on the wastelands of major urban cities in a developing country like India with an ever increasing population catering to the growing needs of consumerism .The focus of this work is mainly centered around the lives of people living near these vast wastelands filled with waste and dirt, living in squalor in the most unhygienic of conditions and amidst lost hopes and broken promises.The community that has developed around these regions mainly comprise of the Dalits and Muslims. Most of them are migrant workers whose daily income is much less than the global average minimum. They have houses that are no less than roofed tin boxes covering with one room housing several families and even more(8-10 members). On top of it, is the menace of flies and vector-borne diseases, unhealthy drinking water that is mixed with the groundwater ,lack of health infrastructure in the communities .The intent for the long-term work is to showcase the dismal situation across India in spheres of waste management and how humans themselves bear the brunt of their growing consumerism and abject ignorance towards other people. It is a vicious cycle involving power, money, class divide all moulded together under the veneer of crony capitalism.
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This work is an extensive long-term research oriented work on the wastelands of major urban cities in a developing country like India with an ever increasing population catering to the growing needs of consumerism .The focus of this work is mainly centered around the lives of people living near these vast wastelands filled with waste and dirt, living in squalor in the most unhygienic of conditions and amidst lost hopes and broken promises.The community that has developed around these regions mainly comprise of the Dalits and Muslims. Most of them are migrant workers whose daily income is much less than the global average minimum. They have houses that are no less than roofed tin boxes covering with one room housing several families and even more(8-10 members). On top of it, is the menace of flies and vector-borne diseases, unhealthy drinking water that is mixed with the groundwater ,lack of health infrastructure in the communities .The intent for the long-term work is to showcase the dismal situation across India in spheres of waste management and how humans themselves bear the brunt of their growing consumerism and abject ignorance towards other people. It is a vicious cycle involving power, money, class divide all moulded together under the veneer of crony capitalism.
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