Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

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Profile Books Limited, Jun 2, 2022 - History - 304 pages
A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

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Saumya Roy is a journalist and activist based in Mumbai. In 2010, she co-founded Vandana Foundation to support the livelihoods of Mumbai's poorest micro-entrepreneurs; through this she met the community who depend on Deonar. Her writing has appeared in Forbes India magazine, wsj.com and Bloomberg News among others, and she has contributed a chapter to Dharavi: The Cities Within (HarperCollins, 2013), an anthology of essays on Asia's largest slum.

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