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In what sense is garbage gold to the rag pickers?
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‘Garbage to them is gold.’ Why does the author say so about the rag pickers?
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Garbage means ‘gold’ to the poor rag pickers because some of it can be sold for cash, thus becoming a means of survival for the children of Seemapuri and for their parents. It is providing them their daily bread and a roof over , their heads.