Dhobi Ghat

This guide to Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai walks through the world's largest open air laundry, built in eighteen ninety, where thousands still beat cloth against stone in seven hundred and thirty one concrete pens. It follows the families who have passed the work down for generations, washing the city's hotel and hospital linen, and one father, Marimuthu Shetty, who bought a washing machine after a lifetime at the ghat. Look down from the bridge at the saris and sheets drying across the basin below.