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The ends of consumption

An essay about Mumbai's garbage pickers, from Saumya Roy, author of the new book "Castaway Mountain"

Sep 14, 2021
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“I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives -- of the endless chase for our desires to fill us,” the journalist Saumya Roy writes in her much-praised new book reporting on garbage sorters in Mumbai. In a moment of environmental reckoning and re-examination of the economic models underpinning our lives, “Castaway Mountain” arrives a…

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