Mumbai Slums

Mumbai’s hawkers: We don’t even know how to deal with them

There hardly is a city with as many slum dwellers, and probably as many hawkers.

How Mumbai's pucca house dream got a quick fix

In Mumbai, where 60 percent of the population builds for itself, a cement company has changed the construction paradigm and given those in slums a real, quick shot at middle-classdom — a pucca house.