Residents of Dharavi, India’s largest slum, are worried about a new development project headed up by billionaire Gautam Adani — one that might see thousands of residents displaced.
Dharavi, depicted in the 2008 Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, sits in the heart of Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, and is home to about a million people. They may live in huts and shanties squeezed into the small piece of land smaller than Central Park, but theirs is a self-sustaining neighbourhood.
In Dharavi, kids run around and play — and thousands of businesses established over the years are thriving under the care of migrant workers. But right now,