Research Paper On Dharavi

The city of Mumbai has seen much growth in the past years. A string of elegant hotels have been set up for travelers and high-class business men. An ever growing, top of the line airport has been built for those coming in and out of the country. From the outside, Mumbai seems to have taken a liking to being internationally integrated with the rest of world, otherwise known as globalization. This is not the case, however; as seen in Katherine Boo’s novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. This novel is set in a slum right next to the Mumbai International Airport called

The Real Slumdog’s documentary was very interesting and eye opening. The amount of businesses that are run in the one square mile area of Dharavi affect the entire capitalism of the world. Look at it this way, the Slumdog’s as they’re called make crappy money to make some very intricate products. These products will be shipped from Mumbai to the rest of the world eventually. As the products are marked up by middle men, the money does not filter its way back to the Dharavi slum. Thus, the products might be ten dollars in a store, but initially the slum workers get paid barely anything and do not get to see the profit that they could. These people work to survive. Mumbai is a very intricate and bustling city, and has a large amount of money and products moved through it each day. In the inner city though, it is not as cheap to make the products. There also are not the massive amounts of laborers that are found in Dharavi. Moving away from product production we can look at the dumps of Dharavi. A large amount of the trash from the inner city is sent to the slum to be processed. The workers that sort through the trash are called rag pickers. The rag pickers make very little money for what they do, but the work that they do is very important. They separate the waste into different categories to be processed and recycled accordingly. They separate the metals from plastics, and

In Slumming It, you experience the life of living in slums in Dharavi, Mumbai. A slum is an overpopulated urban residential area where is consisted of closely packed destroyed housing units which is most likely a deteriorated or an uncompleted infrastructure. In these slums the water is contaminated, sanitation is hard to keep up with as you can see how diseases are easily prevalent. Dharavi has a population of approximately 16 million people and more than half live in these slums. The community of Dharavi keeps a high spirit regardless of what they are facing. They pray every day and their religion keeps them going and with lots of hope and faith. This documentary can be interpreted using the normative theories such as ethics of care, rights theory, and egoism.

The author Mike Davis has done countless research on the topic of urban poverty. In his studies he collects and receives his information from other sources. Perhaps this is the reason why he has a negative view on slums. This is illustrated in his piece “Planet of Slums” as he discusses the politics, urban development, and methods within the slums population. According to Davis, slums and urban poverty have and will continue to significantly increase. While doing so, the gap in exclusion and inequality will grow. As a result, this will weaken urban elites in their work to utilize cities as engines of growth. Slums and slum population are classified as those who are living below the poverty lines, all while, being associated with overcrowding, having poor or informal housing, inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, and insecurity of tenure. This is being recognized as an international phenomenon. To emphasis this phenomenon, approximately half of the slum population in most

While it may be easier to persuade yourself that Boo’s published stories are works of fiction, her writings of the slums that surround the luxury hotels of Mumbai’s airport are very, very real. Katherine Boo’s book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” does not attempt to solve problems or be an expert on social policy; instead, Boo provides the reader with an objective window into the battles between extremities of wealth and poverty. “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” then, exposes the paucity and corruption prevalent within India.

Homes are different in India than in the U.S. because homes in the U.S. are mad by organizations that have the desire to help those who live in poverty. Organization like NHC (National Coalition for the Homeless), build homes and shelters for those who need them. In contrast, homes in the Mumbai under city in India are built with tents and are separated by only a sheet. Homes in India are surrounded by pollution, dumped by nearby oil companies, which pollutes rivers and food sources.

The government also promises to the poor, better schools and hospitals. Balram’s father died because there was improper medical care in their home town, and the life expectancy in India is only 66.8 years. There are nearly 1,189,172,906 people in India and only 61% of the people living in India are literate. In New Delhi, though, the government does fulfill its promises to the rich. They live unaware and uncaring of the slums surrounding their middle class lives. The government makes promises of better livelihoods to its people that are never fulfilled; causing India’s poor to remain in the slums and the government to have little understanding of the problems poor people face.

Shivangi came to America with a hope and goal of becoming a doctor. She had struggled to learn english however after hard work she was on her path to success. Shivagni explained to me that along her journey to where she is today is due to the connections she had made. Even though she is the vice president of millsaps masala and does multiple jobs around campus, she still makes time to guide new underclassmen to ensure everyone can prosper. She is the type of leader to make mistakes and own up to them so others will not follow in her same footsteps.

School lunches across the US are about to offer healthier choices to the students. After a successful test run Greek yogurt maker Chobani has announced that they were chosen to be a permanent choice on the lunch menu.

Annawadi people lives in 300 huts filled with dogs, pigs, buffaloes, rats, mosquitoes and a sewage lake used to dump wastes but Annawadi is surrounded by modern airport, five luxury hotels, very big offices. Some people in Annawadi eat frogs, rats, scrub grass picked from the edge of sewage lake (P-6) whereas lavish party thrown in surrounding star hotels every day and wasted food dumped in sewage lake. In Annawadi, three thousand people lives in 300 huts whereas India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani constructing twenty-seven story home for his family of five. The murder and suicide happened in Annawadi went unnoticed and the case is closed by the police quickly without any investigations with false reasons whereas the death of horses draw attention of public, media and the police arrested the owner of the horses for not taking care of the horses. She also shows how politicians used intercommunal tensions for their benefit, how the legal system has no relation to justice and how globalization brings good and bad even to small slums like Annawadi.

Plant the ball of your back foot into the mat and bend your forward leg’s knee over your ankle to create a ninety-degree angle. Sink your tailbone towards the ground and Square your hips open to the front of the room, then raise your hands up to the ceiling with intent. Though easy, Anjaneyasana or more commonly known as crescent lunge, is very beneficial to your body. It engages more than 5 muscles and joints, and has many long term benefits.

“Simply living in Annawadi was illegal, since the airport authority wanted squatters like himself off of its land” (Boo xviii-xix). The residents feared the policemen greatly, and since most businesses were illegal because they had no licenses, if the policemen found out a family was making enough money to live off of, they would come and extort some of it (Boo xviii).

Slumming it is a documentary on one of Mumbai's largest slum, Dharavi. The narrator, Kevin McCloud’s voice is the dominate one of this documentary as we are shown Dharavi through his perspective and his editors who effect what we see throughout this documentary. The audience is shown Kevin’s perspective on Dharavi mostly negative.

According to Merriam’s dictionary, Dhimmi is a person living in a region overrun by Muslim conquest who was accorded a protected status and allowed to retain his or her original faith. In which Christians was on the lands before Muslims came onto the scene. Dhimmi protects Jews and or Christians in this case from the Muslims from being killed or harmed because of their beliefs and traditions. Christians have similar practices to the Five Pillars but not necessarily calling it the Five Pillars. Christians call upon God anytime of the day that they may want to worship God or wanting to give just a simple gratitude unto God. Jesus told Christians to give unto the poor, and hungry. The Muslims gather at mecca, but Christians should gather together

Slums are hindrance to the achievement of economic growth and development. It is the duty of the government to plan effectively towards the achievement of quality life within the cities. Slums contribute towards the presence of criminal activities within the cities and unemployment hence a significant force towards the overall economic development. Upgrading of slums is vital in the process of offering economic, social, institutional, and cultural services to the city dwellers like other citizens.