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Of the nearly 7,000 blood samples taken from people in Mumbai’s slums, 57% tested positive for coronavirus antibodies. Scientists believe it’s likely that recovering from coronavirus leaves a ...
The Dharavi Redevelopment Project aims to transform Asia's largest slum into a modern township, focusing on housing, ...
But up to a million slum dwellers in the economic capital Mumbai are set for upheaval as the city is poised for a radical makeover Five years after the regional government announced its intention ...
Another, nine stories shorter and with fewer amenities, will house around 210 families now living in the slums. Their current living space, about 78 square feet each, will more than quadruple. It is ...
Dharavi, in central Mumbai, is considered one of the largest slums in Asia, but deep within this neighborhood, below the shanty grey roofs, loosely comprised of scavenged, upcycled metal ...
India is reportedly attempting to cover up slum areas in the financial capital of Mumbai so the city’s glaring economic inequalities can be hidden amid a three-day international meeting taking ...
Dharavi looms ever larger in the popular consciousness of Mumbai. Once a tiny fishing village ... as a downtrodden slum. The second edition of the ambitious Dharavi Biennale is catalyzing such ...
Bombay's slums are as old as modern-day Mumbai. They began sprouting since the beginning of the 20th century, with the arrival of thousands of economic migrants from across Mahara­shtra and India.
Now overlap that image with some of the poorest kids from Mumbai’s slums as they prepare for a concert singing those songs along with the Bombay Chamber Orchestra. And the concert takes place at ...
Children broke into Bollywood dance numbers and crowds cheered in the narrow lanes of a teeming Mumbai slum on Monday as their hometown heroes nabbed Hollywood's highest honors. Two of the child ...