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About Kavya Michael
Kavya Michael is a post-doctoral researcher in Indian Institute of Human Settlements. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the linkages between inequalities and environmental change in an Indian context, with a special focus issues of climate justice in India. Co-author Tanvi Deshpande (tdeshpande@iihs.ac.in), is a research associate at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and works on the CARIAA|ASSAR research programme. Her research interests include understanding vulnerability, response mechanisms and cross scalar and temporal issues in an urban setting.
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Living on the edge: A photo-essay on Bengaluru’s migrant waste pickers

May 10, 2017 Kavya Michael

A vivid picture of the destitution and rights-deprivation that members of the city’s migrant waste-picking community are doomed to.

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