Enjoying a spray bath around a choked sewer in India: childhood in the gutter, in Delhi

From the archive record

Sewage in Taimoor Nagar Delhi are completely choked up with pollutant materials like plastic, fabric, chemicals and million other things. Effecting the everyday life of the locals hazardously. Surrounded by posh guest houses, elite homes and upmarket shops, a by-lane at South Delhi’s Taimur Nagar goes to Indira Camp slums. Its 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 the thick pipe also serves as home for some and a shop for many others. Some have even hun