Lauren McCain’s Reviews > Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai > Status Update

“He had seen friends silently replaced by their young children at the mountains while they retreated to waste away… consumed by tuberculosis. Others had faded into the haze, their disappearance unnoticed in the unrelenting chase for the city’s moth-eaten treasures.

But Hyder Ali & his friends didn’t think their treasure-yielding township & the livelihood it had provided for them had anything to do w it.”