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.…
16 Aug 2020
Oommen C. Kurian
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For long, Western commentariat has treated poverty in the global South as a spectator sport, where improvements didn’t usually bring about the same enthusiasm that a perceived worsening of the situation would. For the same reason, India lifting a mammoth 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016 led to only some muted…