Srikar Raghavan is an independent writer and researcher from Mysore, India. He is presently working on a narrative history of social movements in the state of Karnataka.

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Bengaluru’s Sanitation Workers Say No to the System’s Scraps
If the city’s ragpickers and pourakarmikas stopped working for even a day, Bengaluru would plunge into disease and chaos.
Srikar Raghavan
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