Friday 10 April 2009

mumbai airport slum

These are photographs of unauthorised slums adjoining the Mumbai airport runaway. Dangerous for the residents of the huts, and also very noisy. It is dangerous for the aircraft as well because crows tend to collect around the...

mumbai airport
mumbai airport

Mumbai Slum Redvelopment
Mumbai Slum Redvelopment

Mumbai Slum Redevelopment
Mumbai Slum Redevelopment

Mumbai Airport. The slums
Mumbai Airport. The slums

If you are landing in Mumbai,
If you are landing in Mumbai,

Aerial view of mumbai airport
Aerial view of mumbai airport

Residents of the slum — which is located next to the Mumbai airport and in the shadow of several luxury hotels — live in devastating poverty. Some inhabitants lack any shelter and sleep outside. Rats commonly bite sleeping...
“Finding 'Life, Death And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum” (WBUR ...

Through tight but supple prose, Boo offers an unsettling account of life in Annawadi, a slum near Mumbai's international airport. In Boo's words, this “single, unexceptional slum” sits beside a “sewage lake” so polluted that pigs...
mumbai airport slum

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