“HUNDREDS of contract workers engaged by local bodies and water supply and sewerage boards in major cities and towns to clean underground sewers virtually walk into death traps. A large number of them die instantaneously after inhaling noxious fumes in the sewers. Others die a slow death from respiratory and neurological ailments. Human rights organisations and trade unions have time and again criticised the inhuman practice of employing people in hazardous jobs such as these. Most people employed for the dehumanising work are Dalits…”
Artist: Tom Cheney, The New Yorker, January 26 2008, Cartoon Caption Contest #178
My caption:
“Because I am wealthy and networked, breaking an Indian jail is never a problem. However, it’s Indian sewer that I dread.”
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