Monthly Archives: January 2011

And so the journey has begun…

Hello!! Just a quick update. It’s quarter past midnight now and I’m sitting at Heathrow airport… waiting for my flight to Paris which will leave at 6:40 today. From Paris I’ll then fetch a flight to Delhi where I’ll be … Continue reading

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So why am I so interested in rag picking?

What ho! With less than a week to go before I jet off to Delhi, in this post I will try to explain why I am so interested in the issue of rag picking. I’ll try to keep this post … Continue reading

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What is this Thing called ‘Rag Picking’?

Hello again, I have, in my first post and in the ‘About me” section, frequently referred to the term ‘rag picking’ and ‘rag pickers’. The term is even part of the domain name of this blog. But what does it … Continue reading

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Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog ragpickers.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk. Thank you for taking interest in what I’m doing and in what I’m about to experience in the next weeks, when I’ll be doing an internship with Chintan, an NGO in Delhi. I … Continue reading

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