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Chennai sanitation strike lands in court

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With over 3,000 workers protesting the privatisation plan; the Madras High Court is set to hear the case on 13 August

Poison in Paradise

How burning garbage and indiscriminate quarrying on the coast could spell the death of the Andaman Islands

Confessions of a child rag picker

“There is a contractor who assigns work to us. I am allowed to pick garbage from about five dumps in the Lajpat Nagar area”

Confessions of a Sewage Drain Cleaner

“The contractor does not give us boots or gloves. We go down there in our underwear, holding our breath”

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