ANGELA Saurine explores India's largest slum - Dharavi in Mumbai - on Hindu New Year. There's no school today as it's a public holiday and bright-eyed children excitedly cry "Happy Diwali!" and shake ...

At an academic conference in Mumbai last week, some of us were in two minds when the organizers proposed a tour of Dharavi, the largest slum in Mumbai, made famous by the film Slum Dog Millionaire.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover startups & enterprises in India and the UAE. As roughly half a million tourists poured into Rio for the Summer Olympics, ...

High-rise residential towers are seen behind shanties in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai March 18, 2015. In Mumbai, the windows of new high-rise apartment blocks, old low-rise ...

The Dharavi squatter settlement in Mumbai is often described as the biggest slum in Asia. It sits between two rail lines in the northern part of the city, on a creek that once sustained a thriving ...

This is the Dharavi slum in the city of Mumbai, India. It identified its first case of the coronavirus on April 2. It is perhaps best known as the setting for the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog ...

Mumbai (AFP) – Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born ...

MUMBAI, Oct 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Malik Abdullah's plastic recycling business in Dharavi, the sprawling slum in Mumbai that is among the largest in Asia, has survived fire, building ...