Slumdog Entrepreneurs

A man sifts through finely chopped plastic with his feet as it dries in the sun on a rooftop in the Dharavi slum
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Up on the Roof
A man sifts through finely chopped plastic with his feet as it dries in the sun on a rooftop. The chance to earn a dollar a day draws laborers from across India to Dharavi, whose off-the-books, largely unregulated industries annually churn out some $500 million dollars' worth of goods.

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