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The Sound Of Junk – Dharavi’s Rag Picking Children Are Making Music Out Of The Trash They Collect

The Sound Of Junk – Dharavi’s Rag Picking Children Are Making Music Out Of The Trash They Collect

by The Daily Eye Team October 22 2016, 11:28 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 40 secs

Every day, Mumbai sees – yet ignores – thousands of rag-pickers who go about collecting trash from beaches, railway platforms, and other public places. This huge mountain of trash is then brought to the slums, the unofficial recycling hubs of the city. The rag-pickers are doing Mumbai a huge service by collecting and segregating the city’s waste. Vinod Shetty, a labour lawyer in Mumbai, started noticing how these rag pickers worked – they are the most unrepresented labour force of the city, their working conditions are harsh and dangerous, and there are no labour laws to protect them. Moved by what he observed, Vinod decided to work for the betterment of the rag-picker community, which is at least 1 lakh strong. He founded Acorn Foundation in 2005 towards this vision.

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Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri


Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is a film buff and an editor. Books commissioned and edited by him have won the National Award for Best Book on Cinema twice and the inaugural MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Images) Award for Best Writing on Cinema. In 2017, he was named Editor of the Year by the apex publishing body, Publishing Next. He has written for the online magazine Film Companion. He is a consultant, writer and editor for the newly launched film website Cinemaazi.com. He is the author of two books: Whims – A Book of Poems (published by Writers Workshop) and Icons from Bollywood (published by Penguin/Puffin).    


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