For the Mumbai poor: Why Medha Patkar’s perseverance might pay off
The depth of support for Medha Patkar is not just from the urban poor in slums. The diverse middle classes, increasingly finding that the state does not function for them, are turning to civil society...
View ArticleFrom a Delhi jhuggi : Politicians want to remove poor people, not poverty
In a small jhuggi in the shadow of giant new towers, a few hundred people, dispossessed of their homes by the Metro, wonder if the elections will bring them anything at all. Perhaps blankets.
View ArticlePhotos: Glimpse into the life of jhuggi dwellers of Delhi’s Majnu ka Tila
For the few hundred living in a Delhi jhuggi, displaced due to the Delhi metro, expectations from the upcoming polls are little or nothing.
View ArticlePhotos: Campa Cola residents continue protests, pray for the departed
Residents of the Campa Cola buildings held a prayer ceremony for family members they lost during the past several months as the protests continued. The post Photos: Campa Cola residents continue...
View ArticleCampa Cola is the ‘us’, the slums are the ‘them’
The ruthless demolitions of the slums have taken place even in places like Golibar where the slum shanties are legal, in the sense they were regularised being pre-1995 structures, and were slotted for...
View ArticleWhat Rohit Shetty doesn’t get: We need to have domestic slum tours
A walk through a slum would be quite educative to the non-slum residents. The enormity of a struggle of a life in hovels comes alive. The post What Rohit Shetty doesn’t get: We need to have domestic...
View ArticleOne of the best kept secrets of Indian real estate is out…
If affordable housing does not become the order of the day slums will become as common place in other cities, as they are currently in Mumbai. And that is not a happy thought to look forward to. The...
View ArticleFour of a family killed in cylinder blast in Mumbai
Four members of a family were killed and three others injured in a gas cylinder blast in a slum here on Thursday, officials said. The post Four of a family killed in cylinder blast in Mumbai appeared...
View ArticleHow a ‘crazy soap lady’ from New York is changing lives in Mumbai
Slumdog Millionaire inspired Erin Zaikis to travel to Mumbai when she was 19. Today, at 25, she is changing lives of many in the city with an unlikely commodity- soap. The post How a ‘crazy soap lady’...
View ArticleSachin Tendulkar bats for basic amenities of slum-dwellers, holds meeting...
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has held a meeting with senior officials from Bombay Muncipal Corporation (BMC), including Municipal Commisioner Ajoy Mehta, Apanalaya and Pyxera Global to find...
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