Deaths in Shit.

Because we are shit. 

Manual Scavenging Unmasked

Photo journalistic work

for Thakur Foundation Project

for Pan-India Research, Reporting

and Documenting of the Implementation

of the Manual Scavenging Act, 2013.

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Links to work across 5 stories

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I.

https://scroll.in/article/1041527/manual-scavenging-deaths-in-ahmedabad-result-in-out-of-court-settlements-not-punitive-justice

II.

https://scroll.in/article/1043213/what-it-takes-for-a-city-to-end-manual-scavenging

III.

https://scroll.in/article/1041036/manual-scavenging-killed-19-people-in-mumbai-in-past-five-years-but-bmc-records-show-zero-deaths

IV.

https://scroll.in/article/1042092/how-rajkot-made-progress-in-ending-manual-scavenging-and-why-it-still-has-a-long-way-to-go

V.

https://scroll.in/article/1039817/how-to-cover-up-manual-scavenging-dhule-municipality-gives-cash-to-workers-but-denies-they-exist

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Reporting Partner:

Aarefa Johari, Former Associate Editor at Scroll, ex-HT

Photographs in the reports above have been taken in tiny 10 by 10 type homes in slums, where light hardly enters. Locations: Kurla in Mumbai, Rajkot, Vasai-Virar District, Dhule, Ahmedabad.  I’ve used my self-taught education in mixed lighting to create images that convey their reality without glossing it falsely.

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