Sleepers . Please note:   Life Force magazine is greatly supported by you looking at our advertising which is free to view. Sleepers by Javier Arcenillas Calcutta’s sleepers. A third of the population of India lives on city streets harrassed by the cold and wet, the rats, crows and garbage. As you walk late at night, in the dark corners of the streets, you find bodies lying, filing the holes in porches, walkways and stairs. Whole families huddled together in the dirt, nowhere else to go. The lack of property, houses and extreme poverty of these people sleeping on the streets is part of the usual nocturnal landscape.