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"The day after local news coverage, I was fired from my job," says Arun, who worked as a manual labourer in the transport sector.

Her pictures were featured in a recent exhibition about India's labourers titled The Unseen Perspective at the Egmore Museum in Chennai.

According to him, many other farmers in the area were even sending labourers, who come from Nepal to work in the orchards, back home because there wasn't enough to do.

Most of the labourers, who were working on a highway expansion project, were able to "withstand the wrecking avalanche" because of the containers, rescuers told The Indian Express newspaper.

"Only labourers working on border roads stay there in the winter," he added.