OT:Mumbai's Shadow City
somehow approbiate i post this on a day i am so well fed.
Plus i want people who may not know and that is Mumbai's richest area surrounds Dahravi at its center. To give a perspective on matters NOW headlines.Max
Mumbai's Shadow City
Photograph by Jonas Bendiksen
Some call the Dharavi slum an embarassing eyesore in the middle of India's financial capital. Its residents call it home.
All cities in India are loud, but nothing matches the 24/7 decibel level of Mumbai, the former Bombay, where the traffic never stops and the horns always honk. Noise, however, is not a problem in Dharavi, the teeming slum of one million souls, where as many as 18,000 people crowd into a single acre (0.4 hectares). By nightfall, deep inside the maze of lanes too narrow even for the putt-putt of auto rickshaws, the slum is as still as a verdant glade. Once you get accustomed to sharing 300 square feet (28 square meters) of floor with 15 humans and an uncounted number of mice, a strange sense of relaxation sets in—ah, at last a moment to think straight.
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In this 2007 NG they give Dahravi population at one million, but i read it may now be 2 million. If so that would be 36,000 people per acre--i can't conceive that as possible, mindboggling. Cripes i live on 3 acres of land.How much we don't know about so many. These the anonymous of the world, the powerless. Max
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photo captions via a 2007 NG issue
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