22 Aug 2020
Banjot Kaur
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The eight million residents of Mumbai’s Dharavi are not concerned about whether the ‘Dharavi model’ to tackle the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was science or serendipity. They would rather leave that to the experts and media. The people of Dharavi are, instead, more concerned about issues such as job loss, unemployment, hunger and shortage of…
17 Aug 2020
Banjot Kaur
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While 90-feet-road presented a picture of a normal Dharavi, Down To Earth decided to move a bit further north from here. Our fixer, Rajesh Prabhakar, and Dharavi-based volunteer, Arun Kunchikor, insisted we visit areas that rarely attract the attention of either the media or the administration. We reached Rajiv Gandhi Nagar’s Uttar Seva Sangh Chawl.…
13 Aug 2020
Banjot Kaur
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There was a strange contrast between the sprawling Mumbai metropolis and Dharavi, the iconic ‘slum’ at the heart of it. India’s otherwise-busy financial capital was under lockdown, not Dharavi. Be it the market on 90-Feet Road or the dimly lit bylanes, the place hummed with activity. Nearly 0.8 million people — that’s more than the…