Be it ever so humble.,
.. there is no place like home!
When rural workers come to the cities to make some extra money, they use their familiar hut building techniques and the material easily and cheaply available near the construction sites.
The huts of the villages are stunningly beautiful and elegant with the mud and thatched roofs and decorations. They are very carefully built.
The huts in the cities with plastic and asbestos are an interesting experiment in temporary hybrid technology. It is insulting to call them slums.
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- Migrant workers from neighbouring villages and states help to build the lovely homes of Bangalore
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- Sun Shine on Hut
[...] and Tamil speaking temporary migrant workers from neighbouring states/districts. They live in single “room’ homes and cook outside as well “go” outside in the empty sites. Migrant Worker Kitchen [...]
Migrant Construction Worker – Kitchen « Photo Journalism - June 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm |