No dirty linen in Mumbai’s Dhobi Ghat

Mumbai’s Dhobi Ghat is where chaos, color, activity and sound mix together in a freakish blend. An antithesis to the sophisticated and manicured lawns of Mahalaxmi Race Course only a few hundred yards away, Dhobi Ghat is the fascinating place where Mumbai's laundry gets done. ROHIT GAUTAM explores this curiously quintessential Mumbai phenomenon.

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Yahoo Lifestyle Entertainment Photo by Rohit Gautam Fri 1 Jun, 2012 2:30 PM IST

From the flyover that heads towards Saat Rasta, Dhobi Ghat looks like a neat concrete game of Tetris, with interlocking grids of wash pens (costing Rs 300 per month) infused with scattered bundles of a day’s worth of the city’s laundry.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
ROHIT GAUTAM is a photographer and researcher at Careers 360 Magazine and a freelance news photographer for the London-based news-wire agency Demotix. View more of his work at his website.
From the flyover that heads towards Saat Rasta, Dhobi Ghat looks like a neat concrete game of Tetris, with interlocking grids of wash pens (costing Rs 300 per month) infused with scattered bundles of a day’s worth of the city’s laundry.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
ROHIT GAUTAM is a photographer and researcher at Careers 360 Magazine and a freelance news photographer for the London-based news-wire agency Demotix. View more of his work at his website.

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