INDIA | Sunday, 23 November 2014 | Views [942] | View Smaller Image
On Indian trains, the window is often seen as a trash bin, and the open-chute train toilets drop sewage directly onto the speeding tracks below. The result is thousands of miles of sewage-covered rails, with fields of paper and plastic on either side of the track.
Here, at a station near Mysore, women with straw hand-brooms sweep the littered rails.
