In pics: The other side of incredible India

Apr 23, 2012 11:00am

A boy carries a plastic container to fill water past a garbage dump in Mumbai April 21, 2010.
Reuters, Arko Datta
A man bathes from a broken water pipe line in a Noida slum, located in Uttar Pradesh June 10, 2011.
Reuters, Parivartan Sharma
A boy plays on an improvised swing made of cloth inside a recyclable goods godown in Mumbai March 5, 2012.
Reuters, Danish Siddiqui
Municipal Corporation of Delhi workers sit on a pavement outside the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi September 22, 2010.
Reuters, Parivartan Sharma
A local passenger train passes-by cows at a railway station in Mumbai February 24, 2011.
Reuters, Danish Siddiqui
Waste collector Nakul Mukherjee, 9, collects pieces of scrap metal at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi November 10, 2011.
Reuters, Atish Patel
A Kashmiri girl swings on a tree on a sunny day in Srinagar March 14, 2012.
Reuters, Danish Ismail
A worker carries a sack filled with used plastic items at a grinding plant on the outskirts of Srinagar June 23, 2011.
Reuters, Danish Ismail
Pigeons fly overhead as a woman collects recyclables from a dump yard in New Delhi June 16, 2011.
Reuters, Adnan Abidi
A man looks out of his auto rickshaw as he drives through foam overflowing from a drain outside a factory, in Ahmedabad June 5, 2011.
Reuters, Amit Dave
Ashfaq, 10, carries his two-year-old brother Farhaan through a flooded pathway in a Mumbai slum June 6, 2011.
Reuters, Danish Siddiqui
A boy collects recyclables as rain clouds approach over a garbage dump, on the eve of World Environment Day, on the outskirts of Agartala, Tripura, June 4, 2011.
Reuters, Jayanta Dey
A man carries earthen pitchers on his head on a railway track in Mumbai March 26, 2012.
Reuters, Danish Siddiqui
A girl sits next to a cart full of recyclable materials in Kolkata June 4, 2011. World Environment Day is annually observed on June 5.
Reuters, Rupak De Chowdhuri
A Kashmiri labourer loads used cardboard boxes onto a truck in Srinagar February 22, 2012.
Reuters, Fayaz Kabli
Waste collector Dinesh Mukherjee, 11, watches his friend jump over a puddle of toxic liquid at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi November 10, 2011.
Reuters, Parivartan Sharma
Waste collector Saudagar Mukherjee (C) and his 18-year-old daughter Madhuri (3rd L) collect recyclable material at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi November 10, 2011.
Reuters, Parivartan Sharma
Waste collector Dinesh Mukherjee, 11, uses a magnet attached to a wooden stick to collect pieces of loose metal at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi November 10, 2011.
Reuters, Atish Patel
A boy ferries coconuts thrown in as offerings by worshippers in the waters of the river Sabarmati in Ahmedabad August 9, 2011.
Reuters, Amit Dave
A man cleans foam from his body after taking a bath in the polluted waters of river Yamuna on a cold winter morning in New Delhi January 19, 2012.
Reuters, Parivartan Sharma
A boy runs to hit a shuttlecock with a hand-made wooden bat in a slum in Mumbai, May 17, 2011.
Reuters, Danish Siddiqui
A washerman stands on the banks of river Yamuna as migratory birds fly amid dense fog on a cold winter morning in New Delhi January 3, 2012.
Reuters, Adnan Abidi
A slogan of the sanitation department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) written on a garbage truck is pictured in Mumbai October 29, 2011.
Reuters, Adnan Abidi