After debating the pros and cons of slum tourism in my previous post we decided to go ahead with a tour of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai by Reality Tours & Travel. At 8.30am we journeyed from Colaba to Dharavi and prepared to enter one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Continue reading
For many years I’ve been a big fan of Indian literature. Some of my very favourite novels are by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. The slums of India often feature in these books and I’ve long been fascinated by the microcosmic worlds of these cities-within-cities. Continue reading
