Kolkata basti

Sulekha Mondal cooking lunch under a shade in the demolished Tallah colony. Top right: ‘Poor people have always stayed on sarkari land, otherwise where will we stay?’ asks Lakhhi Das. Bottom row: Women at the transit camps are finding it especially hard to walk long distances to their old basti’s toilet block. Pic: Smita Khator/ People’s Archive of Rural India
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