Navi Mumbai Mathadi workers are the head loaders, bearers, and stackers on shipping docks and in trucks all over the country. They work in gangs of usually three workers with their grappling hook to tote and balance the sacks on their heads and in the piles on warehouses and lorries. They were usually informal …
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KKPKP-Pune Waste Pickers Union
Pune There is a time, even in Mumbai, when the highway is not an obstacle to climb, and it turns out it is 7 AM in the morning. We sailed through the city. We were going to Pune for a meeting and coincidentally in setting up the session it turned out that the newly hired …
Decentralized Industrialization
Tara, Raigad District, State of Maharashtra We ended up somewhere 60 or 70 kilometers south of Mumbai having made relatively good time in the lighter Sunday morning traffic. One of the members of the Yusuf Meherally Centre met us not far from Tara in order to make sure we found the compound and its …