Next to Mumbai's bustling international airport, a boy picks through refuse, looking for pieces he can recycle and sell to support his family of 11. He is a resident of Annawadi, a slum built on a ...
BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS (Random House), by Katherine Boo: This book should come with a warning -- reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that global capitalism will set the world's ...
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HC asks BMC to provide toilets to slums; says slum dwellers can't be deprived of basic sanitation
A division bench of justices G S Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe observed in their order, “The municipal commissioner and officers ...
The HC held that the BMC, particularly when the land in question belongs to it, is duty-bound to provide an adequate number of toilets and maintain them “so that the hygiene and health of the slum ...
Mumbai: In the heart of Mumbai’s coastal slums, a 17-year-old girl is shattering global beauty standards and redefining the 'Cinderella story' for the modern age. Maleesha Kharwa, once a young girl ...
(From right) Mumbai Suburban Guardian Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Mumbai Suburban Collector Nidhi Chaudhary and Bhushan Desphande, Mumbai Suburban district planning officer Broken down and smelly ...
MUMBAI: The impact of monsoon deaths in the city affects the poor disproportionately, with 17 in 20 occurring among them, especially those living in slums where poor drainage, sanitation and limited ...
MUMBAI—In this land-starved financial capital of India, where millions live in slums, a developer late last year started razing two-story brick shanties and tin-shelters near Dhobi Ghat, the world’s ...
BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...
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