Home laundry 17 million in Bombay (10 pics + text) Bashny.Net

Today I spent the whole day will be "Landry". Ie a man-a laundress. Wash kilograms marching things.



the first time with representatives of this very male profession I encountered in India.



Home laundry 17 million in Bombay called Dhobi Ghat, and is a huge quarter rather beggarly area.



Most Landry in Bombay - a "guest workers" from the neighboring Indian states.



For the fact that I had washed 7 things (T-shirts, pants, etc.) I paid 300 rupees (about 230 rubles).



Each "washerwoman" a strictly enclosed grounds.



The concrete tubs of laundry presoak and erase more conventional soap.



Washing powder Indian Landry did not enjoy.



Wash them well: take a dirty, wet clothes, and have just 30-40, Insanely, they beat on the stones. Knock-type dirt.



And then naturally dried.



At the same time Dhobi Ghat employs several hundred Landry. For a couple of hours each of the men over 50 washes dirty things.

(photo - Sergey Kanunnikov)

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