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Seen here is a salt workers' house with the family lunch time. The lady is making chapatis (Indian bread) on an earthen oven and the man is chopping salad for lunch, in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. The salt workers settle down in the desert for 8 months between October to May and their homes adjacent to the salt pans that they work on. Every year there homes are destroyed by the monsoon and they have to rebuild them during their working season. All the workers stay near their salt pans and work in harsh sun to extract salt in the Little Rann of Kutch. "Not many know that salt works begin where civilization ends that salt pans lie in coastal and desert areas under a pitiless scorching sun that some 150 000 salt workers in India and their families (perhaps half a million people in all)
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