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The unending pain of India's sanitation workers

2023-10-26 06:54
Workers from low-caste communities endure stigma and hazards as they clean sewers and septic tanks.
The unending pain of India's sanitation workers

In a dimly lit hut in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Anjana cradles her baby boy, her eyes welling up as she says he is named after his father.

Anjana's husband Umesh Bamaniya died in April, 10 days before his son was born, while cleaning a choked sewer - a job that would've earned him 2...