Dharavi

“Well, today we have a unique story of courage and determination,” the interviewer announced. “Neysa Singh, age 19 from Dharavi, is a representative for her community, and is an ambassador for education and women’s rights. Welcome, Neysa.” “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my experiences with you.” “So, What inspired you to become such a successful leader of the Dharavi community?” “One day, when I was 12, I was playing with my friends on the streets of Mumbai when …” The…

Often times people visualize a country they have yet to visit with correspondence to a relevant movie or image they have seen. India, a South Asian country of one billion people, is generally either viewed as the colorful, gold filled realm shown in the Tom Cruise starrer, Mission Impossible, or as the poverty stricken, slum infested land depicted in Danny Boyles’s, Slumdog Millionaire. Although these two portrayals may seem drastic, they are not too far off the accuracy of what India is as a…

Similarly, Butler and Lees’ “Super-gentrification in Barnsbury, London” explains how international firms can become involved in the local markets of other nations when conditions in said local markets are adjusted in a way that favors foreign firms. The authors state, “In the 1990s, because deregulation had been insufficient to invigorate the rather conservative British finance houses, these firms were taken over, largely by foreign, mainly US-based financial mega-players – this led to large…

superior or inferior good or bad, beautiful or ugly. In the documentary, The Real Slumdogs by Steve Baker, it talks about the very real slums of India, not the one found in movies. The largest slum in the world is in Mumbai, India and is called Dharavi. One of the major points the documentary mentions is how the people of this slum cherish their personal values. One of them, and the most mentioned, is the value of education. Parents in the documentary want their children to succeed and live a…

Life, Death and Hope in a Port Au Prince Undercity Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is a novel based on the residents of Annawadi, an overcrowded, squalid slum near Mumbai, India. Annawadi has a population of about 4,000, but it is very densely populated. It has a high unemployment rate, unsanitary conditions, little access to clean water or electricity, and an unfathomable level of poverty. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is written by…

“Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance,” says politician, philanthropist and cricketing legend Imran Khan. The British approached India at the commencement of the seventeenth century. With time, The British East India Company accumulated power and began to administrate the country. Nonetheless Indians detested its policies and together they revolted against the company. This led to the downfall of the company and the…

Other important codes that are similar to the book and novel are the Setting of the novel and the movie. The slum is a common place in which most of the action in the story happens this plays a vital role in uniting the plight of the lead characters. The slum is an important code as it is the factor that underrates the protagonist ability to win the quiz show it is a symbolic code. The slum stands as a symbol of poverty and ignorance it creates a myth as how the Inspector in the movie puts it…

Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of The City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, is a very educated man. He is an Economics Professor at Harvard University, and a senior fellow at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. Glaeser studies housing, economics of cities, segregation, obesity, crime, innovation, and several other subjects. He is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and writes about his studies. Glaeser’s theme in this book closely…

The cities of Mumbai and Beijing have many similarities. Even though both cities have distinctly different cultures and histories, they share many of the same problems. One major problem both cities have is their populations. Both cities have large populations and continue to grow. Beijing is seen as the more modern global city with huge technology and financial industries; additionally it is the capital of China. Mumbai is developing into a global city and will become quite important in the…

CONCLUSION (THESIS 21.6.15) Poems by women writers on motherhood and mothering, discussed so far conform to the feminist theorization of motherhood both as a subjugating political institution and an enriching personal experience. The poems may not be exclusively written to expose or explore the themes of motherhood alone, but their approach to this topic is extra ordinarily rich and varied, offering fresh insights into how sexual politics and the related institutions, like marriage, religion,…