“I spend my time managing and racking up debt. How do you expect me to work?” (Pushpurani)
A Dalit woman (formerly untouchable) from a village in Tamil Nadu (India), Pushpurani is constantly juggling ten to twenty loans, taken out with finance companies, informal moneylenders, the local elite and neighbours.
“Why do so many retired people go back to work? Because of debt” (Felipe, resident of a favela in Vitoria, Brazil).
