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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beetle_Bailey" data-source="post: 3083662" data-attributes="member: 118102"><img src="http://www.newint.org/features/2005/07/01/sweeping-shit.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sweeping shit: this woman in Gujarat is one of India’s 800,000 toilet cleaners. Stan Thekaekara                                                                                   ‘In the rainy season,’ the woman began, ‘it is really bad. Water mixes with the shit and when we carry it (on our heads) it drips from the baskets, on to our clothes, our bodies, our faces. When I return home I find it difficult to eat food sometimes. The smell never gets out of my clothes, my hair. But this is our fate. To feed my children I have no option but to do this work.’Read More : <a href="http://www.newint.org/features/2005/07/01/combatting_caste/" target="_blank">http://www.newint.org/features/2005/...batting_caste/</a>Sorry if a repost.</blockquote>

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