{"id":3473,"date":"2016-01-19T18:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2016-01-19T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:48:26","slug":"desperate-for-slumber-in-delhi-homeless-encounter-a-sleep-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/19\/desperate-for-slumber-in-delhi-homeless-encounter-a-sleep-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate for slumber in Delhi, homeless encounter a \u2018Sleep Mafia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXzElV75x08?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Whew. That&#8217;s really, really rough. -egg]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With an estimated 100,000 homeless people living on the streets of Delhi, and 18,000 shelter beds, the city&#8217;s nighttime sidewalks are the only bed for tens of thousands of workers.<\/p>\n<p>These workers are doubly cursed: not only homeless, but also denied any place to keep their belongings. They have nowhere to keep a blanket from night to night, so they must pay a few rupees every night for a rented quilt from a &#8220;quilt-wallah,&#8221; a package deal that comes with the wallah&#8217;s protection &#8212; bribes to cops and street-sweepers, advice to pickpockets to avoid the wallah&#8217;s sleeping customers, sometimes even a nighttime open-air Bollywood screening.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Shaunak Sen&#8217;s new documentary &#8220;Cities of Sleep&#8221; follows the quilt-wallahs and their customers through two years of Delhi&#8217;s sweltering summers and frigid winters, providing an intimate look at the tragic deaths of the more than 3,000 unidentifiable workers who expire on the nighttime streets every year; the generosity and desperation of the more fortunate sleepers; the varying approaches of the quilt-makers, which swing from tender to venal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/Desperate-for-slumber-in-Delhi-homeless-encounter-a-Sleep-Mafia\/articleshow\/50641683.cms\">Desperate for slumber in Delhi, homeless encounter a \u2018Sleep Mafia\u2019 (Times of India)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Whew. That&#8217;s really, really rough. -egg] &nbsp; With an estimated 100,000 homeless people living on the streets of Delhi, and 18,000 shelter beds, the city&#8217;s nighttime sidewalks are the only bed for tens of thousands of workers. These workers are doubly cursed: not only homeless, but also denied any place to keep their belongings. 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