Dharavi’s varied texture of life
Posted on December 23, 2009, by Hanna Ingber Win, under International.
I spent last Saturday in Dharavi, Mumbai’s famous slum. Here is my GlobalPost blog about life there.
When we first arrive in Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and the set of much of “Slumdog Millionaire,” we walk along a main drag, called 90 Feet Road, and see small kiosks lining the streets selling chips and betel nut, butcher shops with carcasses on display, a couple wandering goats and residential high rises. It is hot, dirty and overcrowded — not exactly unusual for Mumbai.
Then a group of boys find us, and everything changes. It is the people that make any city come alive. These boys become our window into this complicated maze of narrow alleyways, tiny apartments and shacks of corrugated metals that exists only a 20-minute train ride from downtown Mumbai but could not feel further away from the fancy hotels and Malabar Hill homes.
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