Dharavi

Salt and Shelter

Lhendup G Bhutia

Environmentalists raise concerns as parts of Mumbai’s salt pans are marked for rehabilitating people displaced by redevelopment projects

A Promise of Dignity

Suhel Seth

The redevelopment of Dharavi is about justice and basic rights

Reimagining Dharavi

Lhendup G Bhutia

After multiple failed attempts, the redevelopment of Asia’s largest slum is underway

Dharavi: Once Upon a Slum

Lhendup G Bhutia

Dharavi lies between myth and memory. Lhendup G Bhutia discovers one of India’s biggest social transformations

The Eye of the Beholder

Suhit Kelkar

Dharavi housewives go behind the lens to open up their worlds

Dharavi: In Search of Due Credit

Atiya Hussain

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

Death of the Urban Village

Jeb Brugmann

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

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Dharavi

Salt and Shelter

A Promise of Dignity

Reimagining Dharavi

Dharavi: Once Upon a Slum

The Eye of the Beholder

Dharavi: In Search of Due Credit

Death of the Urban Village

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