"Was important to document these jobs before they face extinction"

May 17, 2016, at 05:11 pm

Have you ever wondered what happened to those people who would once deliver water at our doorsteps using specially made bags, or the ones who would clean our ears? Though some of them still remains active in their line of work, most have disappeared with time. Young writer Nidhi Dugar Kundalia's debut book, The Lost Generation, traces several of them and their present state. IBNS correspondent Sudipto Maity finds out what drove her to chronicle these dying forms.