It was a stinking hot day in Kolkata, the kind where the surrounding atmosphere clings to you like an overly affectionate bear.
There's this one memory Lucy Haslam comes back to: it's a stinking hot day in Tamworth, April 2014, and her 24-year-old son Dan has dragged himself from chemo to watch NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner open a cancer centre.
Except in Peshawar on that stinking hot August day two years ago.
They open early, they're warm, they don't play music, and they'll let you sit in there all day stinking like empty baggies and unwashed pants for the price of a pint of Ruddles.
"The very experience of prison is damaging to your mental health but imagine if you have had bouts of depression in the past or any kind of mental health problem and are then locked up in a cell for 22 hours a day with stinking ventilation and really a rather grotty diet for weeks on end.
On Tuesday, animal carcasses, stinking and bloated, lay scattered along the river bank.
We weren't the only ones who woke up for Tuesday morning seminars stinking of vodka, lime and soda, haunted by remorse and regret, and unable to get "Lisztomania" out of our heads.
For these foot soldiers in Nairobi's unregulated rubbish business, the work is perilous and the rewards paltry, to say nothing of the discomfort of spending the day in a smoky, stinking wasteland.
People living near a Sanitation Department garage at 545 East 73rd Street have complained for months about garbage trucks lining their block, beginning before dawn, and creating a noisy, stinking eyesore for much of the day.
