Invisibles
10 articles
You may not see them but they’re everywhere – the invisible foot-soldiers who power our urban landscapes.
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Invisibles The Earwax Cleaner of Lodhi Garden
"I'm contributing to Swachh Bharat, I purify what people hear": Our khandani earwax cleaner has a lot to say, if only someone would listen.
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Invisibles I Cut Dead People
Not all autopsies happen like they do on TV. In India, chances are you will wind up at your local morgue in the hands of the indifferent Balu kaka.
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Music The Piano Man
Dressed to the nines, he’s invisible in a plush hotel lobby. It takes a little chit-chat for Ivan Rodericks to strike a chord with his tales of Bombay, The Beatles, and Beirut.
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Invisibles The Girl Behind the Kaala Chashma
The gori item girl has invaded B-town, but remains a face in the crowd. Robyn, who I met during the shoot of “Kaala Chashma”, is one such invisible.
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Invisibles Meet My Colleague, Death
When the hospital corridors finally fall silent, the footsteps of death somehow ring louder. And the nurse is often the last person standing between life and death.
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Invisibles The Hero of the Heroin Addict
A walk on the dark side with “gardullas” or drug addicts on the lowest rung, who chase a treacherous high – where life is marked by fearlessness and death is the only certainty.
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Invisibles The Man Who Made Scarlett Keeling Beautiful
Scarlett Keeling first came to Elroy Noronha days after her death in 2008. With a touch of foundation and a hint of blush, he breathed life into her body.
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Invisibles The Gold Sellers from the Gutters
In Mumbai’s Zaveri Bazaar there’s gold everywhere — even in the crevices of streets and drains. You just have to dig for it. Ask Sunny and his tribe of ghamelawallahs.
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Invisibles The Invisible Artist
We all know Sudarshan Shetty, the artistic director of the Kochi Biennale this year. Ever wonder how his most famous artwork, "Love", where a dinosaur humps a Jaguar, was realised?
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Invisibles I Cut Dead People | Audio Story
Not all autopsies happen like they do on TV. In India, chances are you will wind up at your local morgue in the hands of the indifferent Balu kaka.
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Invisibles The Silent King of the Dangal
At the Deaflympics held in Turkey, Goonga Pehelwaan aka Virender Singh won gold yesterday. All that the decorated wrestler wants, is to repair the roof over his head.
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