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gethin chamberlain > Children living rough beside a traffic roundabout surrounded by new 5-star hotels near Pusa Road, Rajinder Nagar, Central Delhi. Behind them, an elderly homeless woman sleeps on the pavement and in the background a woman beats a recalcitrant child. The group originally moved to Delhi from Karnataka about 40 years ago. They deny being beggars, and say they make money selling balloons to motorists and doing labouring work. But police have picked several members of the group up in recent weeks as the city authorities try to clear the streets of beggars, and others whose presence is judged to be undesirable, im preparation for the Commonwealth Games, which are due to be held in Delhi in 2010. Mobile courts have been brought in to process beggars who have been arrested. Those sentenced are moved to one of 12 beggar jails set up around the city. There are at least 60,000 beggars in Delhi, with some estimates putting the figure above 100,000.
gethin chamberlain > Police keep watch on tribal people protesting against plans to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri mountain in Orissa state, India. The mountain is regarded as sacred by the local Kondh tribes, who rely on the jungle which cloaks its slopes for their livelihood. But the tribes' survival is now threatened after India's Supreme Court gave permission for the British-owned Vedanta mining company to begin extracting bauxite from the mountain. It has already dug a number of test pits and started to cut down trees to push roads up the hillsides. It is also building a large conveyor belt to carry the bauxite down to the Lanjigarh alumina refinery. Some of the aluminium produced by the company is used in India's nuclear missile programme.
gethin chamberlain > Raja Maghi, 28, a member of the Kutia Kondh tribe and his 18 month old son Laki in the village of Dangadahal in the foothills of Niyamgiri mountain in Orissa state, India. The mountain is regarded as sacred by the Dongria Kondh tribe, which relies on the jungle which cloaks its slopes for their livelihood. But the tribe's survival is now threatened after India's Supreme Court gave permission for the British-owned Vedanta mining company to begin extracting bauxite from the mountain. It has already dug a number of test pits and started to cut down trees to push roads up the hillsides. It is also building a large conveyor belt to carry the bauxite down to the Lanjigarh alumina refinery. Some of the aluminium produced by the company is used in India's nuclear missile programme. The tribe say animals which live on the mountain are being driven down into their villages by the ongoing work. The crops in Raja's village have been trampled and eaten by elephants which came down off the mountain: he and the others have had to resort to digging stone out of the ground for use in roadbuilding to earn some money to buy food.
gethin chamberlain > Rubina Ali, 10, on the step of her tiny shack in the Garib Nagar slum in the Bandra district of Mumbai. She played the part of the young Latika in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. Six months after the movie won eight Oscars, she still lives in the slum in a tiny shack which she shares with eight other people. Yet she is not unhappy, she says: in the slum, she is surrounded by her family and friends. Her father Rafiq Qureshi is in the background.
gethin chamberlain > Azhar Ismail, 10, outside the apartment block where he now lives in Mumbai. Until two months ago he and his family lived in the Garib Nagar slum in the Bandra district of Mumbai. Azhar played Salim, the lead characterÕs brother, in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, which went on to win eight Oscars. He lives in the one-bedroom apartment with his mother Shamim and his older brother and the brother's wife. There is also an internal toilet, small bathroom and kitchen. His father, Mohammed Ismail, chose to stay on in the slum to run his scrap wood business. He was suffering from tuberculosis and moved into the apartment earlier in the week because he was no longer able to look after himself. He died the day after this photograph was taken.
gethin chamberlain > Azhar Ismail, 10, outside the apartment block where he now lives in Mumbai. Until two months ago he and his family lived in the Garib Nagar slum in the Bandra district of Mumbai. Azhar played Salim, the lead characterÕs brother, in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, which went on to win eight Oscars. He lives in the one-bedroom apartment with his mother Shamim and his older brother and the brother's wife. There is also an internal toilet, small bathroom and kitchen. His father, Mohammed Ismail, chose to stay on in the slum to run his scrap wood business. He was suffering from tuberculosis and moved into the apartment earlier in the week because he was no longer able to look after himself. He died the day after this photograph was taken.
gethin chamberlain > Rubina Ali, 10, in the Garib Nagar slum in the Bandra district of Mumbai. She played the part of the young Latika in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. Six months after the movie won eight Oscars, she still lives in the slum in a tiny shack which she shares with eight other people. Yet she is not unhappy, she says: in the slum, she is surrounded by her family and friends. She is pictured with her father Rafiq Qureshi and an older sister.
gethin chamberlain > Rubina Ali, 10, on the step of her shack in the Garib Nagar slum in the Bandra district of Mumbai. She played the part of the young Latika in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. Six months after the movie won eight Oscars, she still lives in the slum in a tiny one room shack which she shares with eight other people. Yet she is not unhappy, she says: in the slum, she is surrounded by her family and friends. In the background is her father Rafiq Qureshi and adopted brother Kurshid, 10, an orphan from Bihar state who was taken in by the family after his mother died in the slum.
gethin chamberlain > Rubina Ali, 10, in the Garib Nagar slum in the Bandra district of Mumbai. She played the part of the young Latika in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. Six months after the movie won eight Oscars, she still lives in the slum in a tiny shack which she shares with eight other people. Yet she is not unhappy, she says: in the slum, she is surrounded by her family and friends.
Children living rough beside a traffic roundabout surrounded by new 5-star hotels near Pusa Road, Rajinder Nagar, Central Delhi. Behind them, an elderly homeless woman sleeps on the pavement and in the background a woman beats a recalcitrant child. The group originally moved to Delhi from Karnataka about 40 years ago. They deny being beggars, and say they make money selling balloons to motorists and doing labouring work. But police have picked several members of the group up in recent weeks as the city authorities try to clear the streets of beggars, and others whose presence is judged to be undesirable, im preparation for the Commonwealth Games, which are due to be held in Delhi in 2010. Mobile courts have been brought in to process beggars who have been arrested. Those sentenced are moved to one of 12 beggar jails set up around the city. There are at least 60,000 beggars in Delhi, with some estimates putting the figure above 100,000.
gethin chamberlain > Children living rough beside a traffic roundabout surrounded by new 5-star hotels near Pusa Road, Rajinder Nagar, Central Delhi. Behind them, an elderly homeless woman sleeps on the pavement and in the background a woman beats a recalcitrant child. The group originally moved to Delhi from Karnataka about 40 years ago. They deny being beggars, and say they make money selling balloons to motorists and doing labouring work. But police have picked several members of the group up in recent weeks as the city authorities try to clear the streets of beggars, and others whose presence is judged to be undesirable, im preparation for the Commonwealth Games, which are due to be held in Delhi in 2010. Mobile courts have been brought in to process beggars who have been arrested. Those sentenced are moved to one of 12 beggar jails set up around the city. There are at least 60,000 beggars in Delhi, with some estimates putting the figure above 100,000.
Children living rough beside a traffic roundabout surrounded by new 5-star hotels near Pusa Road, Rajinder Nagar, Central Delhi. Behind them, an elderly homeless woman sleeps on the pavement and in the background a woman beats a recalcitrant child. The group originally moved to Delhi from Karnataka about 40 years ago. They deny being beggars, and say they make money selling balloons to motorists and doing labouring work. But police have picked several members of the group up in recent weeks as the city authorities try to clear the streets of beggars, and others whose presence is judged to be undesirable, im preparation for the Commonwealth Games, which are due to be held in Delhi in 2010. Mobile courts have been brought in to process beggars who have been arrested. Those sentenced are moved to one of 12 beggar jails set up around the city. There are at least 60,000 beggars in Delhi, with some estimates putting the figure above 100,000.
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