Bombay workshop, early 1980s

In the early 1980s I found myself in Bombay - when it was still called Bombay.  I would wander the streets taking photographs. Sadly most of them have gone, but I still have some.

Here an enterprising machinist has set up a little workshop in a tent at the aside of the road. He is actually on the pavement, and the ditch at the back is an open sewer/drain running though the tent.

Inside the tent was a very old electric powered lath You can see how he has made an illegal tap into the power pole.

The owner lived and worked in this tent, oblivious to passing traffic and people.