A walk through Latur Galli in Mumbai's Dharavi is not for the faint-hearted. The passage to Basavraj Swami's 70 square feet home involves ducking iron beams, sidestepping covered drains disguised as ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Stenciled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. “I was born here, my father was born here, my ...

For decades, Dharavi has epitomized two contradictory realities: the hardship of congested informal settlements and an extraordinary homegrown economy where tiny workshops and roadside vendors drive ...

Dharavi is a square mile of corrugated iron, concrete blocks and plastic sheeting in the middle of Mumbai, crammed with humanity. With perhaps 1m residents, the slum is one of the world’s biggest. As ...

For decades Dharavi has been shorthand for two contradictory things: the hardship of congested informal settlements, and an extraordinary homegrown economy where tiny workshops and roadside vendors ...

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...