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Foamy, dirty water in an unnamed creek near Bantala and Dhapa, Kolkata, India. The area is home to the main landfill for Kolkata, and a large number of small recycling operations, as well as leather incinerators. Pollution in the area is extreme.
Piles of asphalt waiting to be melted down and recycled at a small facility near the Dhapa landfill, East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India.
A man lies bleeding on the Sealdah railway station platform in Kolkata, India. He remained there for about an hour before an ambulance arrived. The nature of the injury is unkown.
A man crosses a dramatically lit footbridge at night, over the railway tracks and busy Strand Road, near Barabazar, Kolkata, India.
Construction of apartments in the East Kolkata Wetlands near Dhapa, Kolkata, India. Dhapa is the site of the main landfill for Kolkata.
Two men talk at a party in Sovabazar, Kolkata, India. One of them is wearing a jacket with an American flag on it.
Workers carry baskets of leather scraps to be incinerated near the town of Bantala, East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India. There are more than a dozen furnaces putting out large volumes of toxic smoke all day, and workers wear no protection.
Hindu shrine in front of a wall with stenciled murals of Mao and Lenin, in Bowbazar, Kolkata, India. (ID Needed)
A boy dribbles a soccer ball on a dusty, polluted road in Dhapa, Kolkata, India. Dhapa is the site of Kolkata's largest landfill, and numerous recycling and incineration operations.
A Naga Sadhu (holy man) smokes a pipe and meditates at a staging area in Kolkata, India for pilgrims going to the Gangasagar Mela on Sagar Island south of Kolkata.
A silhouetted bird carries a small fish to a perch atop a stick, East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India.
A mother plays peek-a-boo with her baby at their house in the Fakir Bagan neighborhood of Howrah, India, in an area served by the NGO Calcutta Kids (calcuttakids.org)
Mother and her baby at a clinic operated by Child in Need Institute (CINI, cinindia.org) in Pailan, Kolkata, India
Mother and her darling baby daughter in a slum area in Ward 66, Muchipara, Kolkata, India. Many people in the community make sandals.