Mumbai There is a common saying about how important it is just to “show up” in making things happen. The corollary to that should be “finding it,” which is how I felt trying to navigate a cab through the packed streets and narrow byways of the giant Dharavi slum where we work in Mumbai. The …
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Mumbai’s Lying Eyes
Mumbai People are living everywhere in Dharavi, widely counted as India’s mega-slum near central Mumbai, and a target of big, billion dollar development plans supported by the Bombay Municipal Corporation. But, the survey of housing units and census on population, particularly the parts that trigger any potential plans for relocation and BMC or developer compensation, …
Waterless Urinals
Delhi This article in The Times of India about the planning and preparations for the Commonwealth Games in 2010 is too good not to share. It has everything. It reminds me of that David Alan Cole number about the perfect country-and-western song. This is just about the perfect Indian article capturing in a vivid way …