In this photo taken on May 14, 2010, an unidentified rat catcher tosses a rat that he killed in the outskirts of Mumbai, India. The competition for rat catcher jobs in Mumbai is stiff. They must be able to lift a 110 pound sack and run a few miles. They must demonstrate their ability to catch and kill a rat in the dark within ten minutes. Each rat catcher must kill 30 rats a night, six nights a week. If he doesn't make the quota, he doesn't get paid.

In this photo taken on May 28, 2010, Sabid Ali Sheikh, a rat catcher searches for rats in Mumbai, India.

In this photo taken May 14, 2010, Sabid Ali Sheikh, a rat catcher, tries to kill a rat in the outskirts of Mumbai, India.

In this photo taken on Nov. 2, 2010, Wasim Sheikh, Sabid Ali Sheikh's son, holds rats he killed along with his father, a rat catcher in Mumbai, India. All around him, as India's richest city quickly gets richer, Sabid Ali Sheikh and his sons remain trapped in a painfully slow cycle of aspiration. He hopes merely that his children get as lucky a break as he did. "I'm happy with what I have. I came to Bombay. I had nothing. I got this job," he said. "Now I pray to God that all my sons get employed."