Mountain Tales - Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

About the author

Saumya Roy is a journalist and social entrepreneur based in Mumbai. In 2010, she co-founded Vandana Foundation to support the livelihoods of Mumbai's poorest micro-entrepreneurs; through this she met the community who depend on Deonar. Her writing has appeared in Forbes India magazine, wsj.com and Bloomberg News among others, and she has contributed a chapter to Dharavi: The Cities Within (HarperCollins, 2013), an anthology of essays on Asia's largest slum.
Saumya received residencies from the Rockerfeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Blue Mountain Center, Carey Institute for Global Good and Sangam House for the writing of Mountain Tales.

Summary

A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

Foreword

A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

Product details

• Authors: Saumya Roy
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2021
• EAN: 9781788165365
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-536-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Politics & government, Politics and government