God In My Pocket
24 Apr 2010
The proximity of faith related icons to the money in this Dharavi chai-house – every time a transactions is completed the owner brushes the religious …
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Directly behind me are a family of 4, plus 2 team members conducting the interview, plus ~6 kids from the neighbourhood crammed into a 6 …
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A hand pushing the entrance door to a unlicensed movie theatre in Dharavi, Mumbai – the movie playing can be seen through the peep hole. …
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Money, Not a Bank in Sight
19 Mar 2008
Imagine a world without access to banks and the services they provide – baseline services such as credit, money transfers, savings. For many of the …
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Red dye from Mumbai above, blood from slaughtered sheep from Urumqi, below.
The traces/bi-products of activities, the social acceptability of those activities, the extent to …
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Additional protection from the monsoon rains – a splash proof phone, in a protective case, in a plastic bag. Justifiable paranoia for a business tool …
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What drink do you associate with a hit of salt? Tequila? Neat vodka? A soda water?
Salt and soda water? At least two explanations why locally, …
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Every inside surface of the taxi carpeted, except for the floor.
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