City of garbage: Top angle view of sewage in Taimoor Nagar, Delhi

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Plastic and other solid waste chokes up an open sewer line or nullah, in Taimoor Nagar, Delhi. What an image of human, civic, social and municipal apathy, pathetic hopelessness and dystopian India at her worst... Surrounded by posh guest houses, elite homes and upmarket shops, a by-lane in South Delhi’s Taimur Nagar heads towards the Indira Camp slums (in-appropriately named for an ex Prime Minister of India?). It's two parts — Pahari Number 1 and 2 — house nearly 1,600 jhuggis and 6,000 inhabitants and derive their name from the two mountain-like garbage dumps on which they stand. A water pipe, which serves almost half of Delhi, runs through the garbage dumps. The residents of the slum live in tiny rooms covered with tattered clothes as curtains or broken wooden/ tin doors. The area below