Dhobi Wallah adding chemicals to clothes in the washing process at Dhobi Ghats, Mumbai, India
clothes and washing chemicals being added view of Dhobi Ghats around Mahalaxmi station where every day from dawn till dusk some 5000 dhobi wallahs pound the city s laundry from hospital sheets to up market hotels Row upon row of open air concrete wash pens each fitted with its own flogging stone Clothes are first flogged then tossed into vats of boiling starch and then finally hung out to dry they are washed in any one of 7 types of chemical baths according to fabric type Heavy wood burning irons are used for pressing Families and their kids also live on site in cramped and basic accomadation Mumbai scenes
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Location: Dhobi Ghats Mumbai India
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