These images, taken on a rain-lashed day inside the Indiranagar 3 locality of Dharavi, capture the stubborn heartbeat of Asia’s largest slum amid dystopic surroundings. It is where dreams navigate sun-deprived days, one precarious breath, one bucket of water, one encroached inch at a time. Source link
On the ‘new’ Dharavi: Dharavi should look like a modern town, no gentrification and ghettoisation, with access to amenities for all. It will be a formalised, thriving, much-larger economy than even before. It will also be a huge step towards a slum-free Mumbai. Source link
A walk through Latur Galli in Mumbai’s Dharavi is not for the faint-hearted. The passage to Basavraj Swami’s 70 square feet home involves ducking iron beams, sidestepping covered drains disguised as walkways and navigating alleys barely wide enough for a single person. Swami, 58, lives here with eight family members, packed like pieces of a…
Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision | Citizenship on trial Source link
In June 2022, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sprang a surprise by choosing Shiv Sena rebel Eknath Shinde as the chief minister of Maharashtra, with their own Devendra Fadnavis, in whose cabinet the former was a minister from 2014-19, as his deputy. Though it was speculated that Fadnavis would be doing some back-seat driving in…
It was a wintry afternoon on December 1 in Nagpur when Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat took the stage and called upon Indian (Hindu) couples to do their patriotic duty—have at least three children. The RSS chief, known for his Hindutva musings and cultural prescriptions, painted a grim picture: “According to population science,…
