Thursday, June 6, 2013

Thursday Challenge - Cleaning

 
Cleaning up after the Mumbai marathon in Worli. These are self employed individuals who pick up all paper, plastic and metal waste and sell it to the recyclers, for a living in Mumbai.

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26 comments:

  1. Great shot for the day. Hope your week is going well!

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  2. Kids who should be in school? Sad! Atleast they are not begging! Hmm!

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  3. It's sad to see kids working and not in school but I guess where you are, putting food on the table is more important to the poor than going to school.

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  4. well .. reality of our country right on the face !! No matter how much we show-off , India is a nation where hunger wins over childhood .. on every street , in every city and throughout !!
    Amazing Capture bhai !!
    An Eye-Opener everytime we hallucinate we are a developing nation !

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  5. Well as always ur click is awesome but it is sad that at this tender age these kids should be in school whereas they are on streets earning food for them.

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  6. May each find his daily rice-

    Namaste / ALOHA from Honolulu
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  7. This is modern society... one man's garbage is another man's livelihood...

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  8. Hari OM
    A well placed shot for the theme - brings things to light.

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  9. Sad state of affairs. But a lovely capture.

    http://www.whatmycameracaptures.com/thursday-challenge-4/

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  10. They look so young. Got to give them credit for their entrepreneurship, though. Back-breaking work!

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  11. Ditto what Lowell said Deepak, good on them!

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  12. bitter truth but a very good click.

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  13. We see these under-appreciated people everywhere in India (railway stations especially)...

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