From the archive record
Sourcing water from a bucket which she has filled from a nearby hand pump, a woman carries out her household's laundry out in the open, and on a street side in Meerut, in the Delhi NCR. She uses a detergent cake to rub the jeans and applies water from time to time, scrubbing on the road-side stone itself. Such is life in urban India where millions live out their lives on the roads, streets and on the foot paths meant for commuters to pass by, for the lack of space and the cost of renting a room which they cannot afford. Many sleep on the roadside as well... This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on