Bagri Foundation's video: The Bottom Drawer with Saumya Roy

Welcome to the Bagri Foundation's sixth episode in The Bottom Drawer series. In this bonus episode we meet Mumbai based journalist and social entrepreneur Saumya Roy. Roy is the author of Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings - an urgent and illuminating account of the people who live on the Deonar garbage mountains in Mumbai. In the interview we will discover what inspired Roy's impressive debut and what it's really like to write your first book. Saumya Roy is a journalist and social entrepreneur based in Mumbai. In 2010, she co-founded Vandana Foundation to support the livelihoods of Mumbai’s poorest micro-entrepreneurs. Soon she began lending to the waste pickers of Deonar, discovering their secret world and intrepid lives and has stayed, chronicling them, since then. Her writing has appeared in Forbes India magazine, wsj.com, thewire.in and Outlook Magazine among others, and she has contributed a chapter to Dharavi: The Cities Within (HarperCollins, 2013), an anthology of essays on Asia’s largest slum. She received residencies from the Rockefeller Foundations’ Bellagio Center, Carey Institute for Global Good, Blue Mountain Center, Sangam House and Dora Maar House for writing this, her first book. Find out more about The Bottom Drawer and other Bagri Foundation series' on our website www.bagrifoundation.org or follow us on social media @bagrifoundation.