Greater Adjutant storks stand by as a boy picks through a landfill (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Storks have seen their wetlands turned into a dump (Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar)

Daily, 50 trucks dump refuse from the cisty of Guwahati in Assam, NE India (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

A sad reality, as urbanisation takes its toll on the environment. Deerpol Beel in Guwahati i Assam, NE India, a traditional wetland sanctuary for Great Adjutant Storks has been converted into the city’s refuse dump yard.

Paint chips as crushed into a fine powder to be recycled into paint. Dharavi slum in Mumbai is home to a large number of recyclers, who turn the city’s waste into reusable products.

Street side dental surgeons?  Only in India…an possibly elsewhere too!  A tooth is giving you problems?  It stick out and makes your smile toothy?  No problem, just file it down!

Holi, predominantly north Indian festival of colours celebrating the start of spring, photos by Sanjay Kanojia (AFP / Getty Images)