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India's dirty secret

The frequent deaths of India’s sewer workers isn’t a governance failure – they are rooted in caste

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
· Nov 17, 2019 · 06:30 am
A Dalit man agreed to clean a sewer hoping for a permanent job – and was killed by toxic fumes

Harsh Mander Vidit Verma Sonal Sharma
· Oct 27, 2019 · 06:30 am
Why a woman in Udaipur refused to strike a compromise after her husband died cleaning a septic tank

Harsh Mander Vidit Verma Sonal Sharma
· Oct 11, 2019 · 06:30 am
As three Dalits lay dying from toxic fumes in an Agra sewer, no one would even give them water

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
· Sep 27, 2019 · 06:30 am
A woman in MP recounts the trauma of watching her husband die in a tank full of faeces

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
· Sep 13, 2019 · 06:30 am
A decade after her husband died cleaning a septic tank, a woman in MP struggles to keep going

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
· Aug 23, 2019 · 07:30 am
In Agra, fear of eviction stalls the fight for justice for a man who died after cleaning septic tank

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
· Aug 13, 2019 · 07:30 am
‘No one came to help’: How a father and teenaged son in Madhya Pradesh died cleaning a septic tank

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
· Jul 26, 2019 · 09:00 am
Govind decided to clean a septic tank to earn extra money for Holi. He drowned in shit

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma
· Jul 19, 2019 · 12:30 pm