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33. Dharavi            

Dharavi is famous, infamous would probably be a better word, as Asia's largest slum. Dharavi is situated at the top of the seven islands that originally were called by the Portugese Bhom Bai, or we came to know it - Bombay. It was once marsh and mud-flats, washed by Mahim Creek, a piece of open land between the districts of Matunga and Sion, bordered on either side by railways leading out of the city to the north and East. Dharavi is now home to more than half a million men, women and children. Dharavi’s the lung for all the jobs on Apna Street.

34. Dawn of Parsee Gulli          

For many years, I used to live half-way up Mumbai near Apna Street, but on the smart side of the city, on Bhulabhai Desai Road, facing the Arabian Sea. Every morning at dawn I would set off for a morning walk up a lane - called Parsee Gulli - to collect my newspaper and buy fruit. One morning, I stopped to drink chai or Indian milk tea with Madan Lal, Chandabehn and Haridas, three adults who live on the street in Parsee Gulli.

35. Dindoshi Revisited        

When I was first taken to Dindoshi in April 1988 it was a piece of wasteland at the very edge of Bombay where the city had literally dumped several thousand pavement dwellers who'd been living in the heart of the things were pretty bad. There was no work, no electricity, just one water pump, and many of the people I talked with had already decided it was better to sell up and move back into the city, to their work and life on the pavement. In 1993 I finally returned. What a transformation!