Saumya Roy, CASTAWAY MOUNTAIN: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai

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🗓️ 19 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Journalist, social activist, and professor Saumya Roy joins Zibby to talk about her first book, Castaway Mountain, which is the culmination of eight years of interviews with and research on the wastepickers in the garbage landfill of Mumbai. Saumya shares how she first became involved with wastepickers after she and her father began a non-profit that offers loans to microentrepreneurs and was approached by a number of those who managed the landfill. She wanted to not only show the world who these individuals are and how they have built their lives but also how we as a global community are constantly generating waste which greatly contributes to climate change.

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0:36.7	Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:41.4	Samya Roy is the author of Castaway Mountain, love and loss among the waste pickers of Mumbai.
0:46.4	Set against the towering garbage mountains at the edge of the city, it follows the improbable life of
0:50.8	Farsana Shaikh, a waste picker who was born at the feet of these mountains and grew up
0:55.2	in the shadow of Mumbai's rising detritus, finding friends, genes, love, and life. Samya is a journalist
1:01.1	and co-founder of Vandana Foundation, which supports the livelihoods of micro-entrepreneurs.
1:06.3	Castaway Mountain was among NPR's best love books for 2021 and is being translated into several languages.
1:12.4	Welcome, Samia. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss
1:16.6	Castaway Mountain, love and loss among the waste pickers of Mumbai. Thank you for having me, Zipi.
1:23.2	This is such a pleasure. Where are you these days? Are you in? Where are you for the Zoom in the world?
1:28.9	I just moved last week to Berkeley, California to teach at the university here.
1:34.5	Oh, wow.
1:34.9	Okay.
1:35.4	Oh, so no, I'm sorry.
1:36.3	It's early.
1:37.8	No, that's okay.
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