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One man's mission to rid India of its dirtiest job

csmonitor.com — Ms. Chaumar was on her way to work when Bindeshwar Pathak stopped her. She recalls being amazed that a "nicely dressed" man would even speak with someone like her: a manual scavenger and a pariah "untouchable," the Hindu caste that was supposedly abolished in 1950. As such, it was her job to clean human waste, by hand, from homes that lack toilets.

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  • Stevanoski, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Aren't the Gypsies supposedly untouchables that left India for reasons unknown?
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