Lhendup G Bhutia
Environmentalists raise concerns as parts of Mumbai’s salt pans are marked for rehabilitating people displaced by redevelopment projects
After multiple failed attempts, the redevelopment of Asia’s largest slum is underway
Dharavi lies between myth and memory. Lhendup G Bhutia discovers one of India’s biggest social transformations
India’s largest slum is built on the creative zeal of entrepreneurs who had no access to finance from banks. But things are changing now
Mumbai’s Shanghai dream involves ‘saving’ Dharavi by first razing it. As this extract shows, this benefits nobody more than the corrupt builder-politician lobby