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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Mountain Tales’ review: Where home is a rubbish mountain 20 storeys high -Soma Basu

‘Mountain Tales’ review: Where home is a rubbish mountain 20 storeys high -Soma Basu

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published Published on Oct 23, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 30, 2021

-The Hindu

A gut-wrenching story of the poor and marginalised who work and live at Mumbai’s Deonar landfill to earn their daily bread

Rag pickers live off what the rest of the world throws away. They lead invisible lives in the landfills that keep growing, stagnating and putrefying with items discarded by the city’s rich. The dark trail of modern life is seen and felt everywhere.

Journalist Saumya Roy, who spent eight years researching the impact of urbanisation, over-consumption and waste mismanagement in Maximum City, describes it as ‘discarded desires’ of the moneyed-people. The grossness of disparity between the world of the rich and the poor compelled her to explore the lives of rag pickers in 2013, when she co-founded Vandana Foundation to support the livelihoods of Mumbai’s poorest micro-entrepreneurs.

Unspoken trauma

Roy initially planned to write a magazine article but in 2016 after fire erupted in Deonar’s garbage mountains engulfing the city in its smoke and the pickers got arrested, her Mountain Tales took shape as she witnessed the unspoken trauma of the marginalised community. She knew they struggled to feed their families and continued to live in anguish in the place because they believed it gave them an opportunity to earn. 

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The Hindu, 23 October, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/mountain-tales-review-where-home-is-a-rubbish-mountain-20-storeys-high/article37122585.ece?utm_campaign=Worker%20Web&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter


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