While in Mumbai we visited the ghat where the dhobe -wallahs work and saw India's infamous caste system in action. For hundreds of years children have been born into this ghat, raised there, married other residents, and then set up shop as poorly paid washermen and women, just like their parents before them.
The caste system: Brahmins do the cool shit, Devadasis become hookers, Dhobes do the laundry and Dalits beg for change at intersections and get nominated for oscars.
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