A look at the lives and livelihoods of the cart pullers who transport goods using the popular ‘meen body vandi’ or tricycle carts in Chennai’s markets.
Over 60 families were moved to Kannappar Thidal in 2002 with the promise of housing tenements. Twenty years on, they are in the very same spot, only worse off.
Have you noticed that there are many Thideer Nagars in Chennai? Residents of these localities live without basic amenities and under threat of eviction.