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Names changed, schedule unchanged. What 24 hours actually look like for a family of five in a Shahdara basti, and why routine — not drama — is the real story of urban informal work.
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An estimated 1.5–4 million informal waste pickers recover nearly 20% of India's municipal solid waste. Here is who they are, what they earn, and why their invisibility is a civic failure we can fix.
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