Found in BBC "Week in pictures: 7-13 March 2015"
Photo credit: Rafiq Maqbool
The photo is immensely powerful. It displays a world which we rarely see and know little about. The canal full of trash that runs through a city, Mumbai (Dharavi), in decay. The photo completely conveys the disparity in our world. Living off 1-2 US dollars a day, people in the slum revert to basics. This canal joins the Mithi River which later feeds into the Arabian sea. The photo is one of two folds, it expresses the huge population and environmental issues the are involved with the trash and waste around the world and especially in developing areas. The other aspect the photo depicts is the awful poverty in the slums of India where in times, the climate and society is one of medieval times, with holes as toilets.
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