His job for the past 40 years has been folding boxes and he loves it


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He's been folding boxes since he was 10. And with Diwali approaching, Khan's in a folding frenzy. But he loves his job as his gift boxes has helped him support his family. Photo: Unsplash

It's six in the evening. He's making boxes. He has been making boxes since 10 in the morning. In fact, he has been making boxes for 40 years. This 50-year-old man must be fed up of making boxes almost all his life.

Jamal Khan laughs, bobbing his head up and down. He is sitting cross-legged on the floor in one corner of a little qabristan, or graveyard, tucked within Old Delhi's appropriately named Mohalla Qabristan.

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