life inside a Mumbai slum

[SandEagle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...no-one-wants-incredible-community-spirit.html

One million people live in the 240-hectare Dharavi slum
Police officers, airport workers, accountants, doctors, lawyers all live in the cramped slum
There are more than 20,000 small businesses in the district - and almost no beggars at all
Just onw per cent of the tiny properties have their own toilets and there are open drains
Indian movie stars and the country's wealthiest businessman live just a few miles away

figured you guys enjoy indian threads more than cop threads, so here's your daily dose of indianian stuff. interesting article on Dharavi. please read it. pics and video in link. i plan to visit it one day. they probably have kick ass foodstands in this district. based on the pics though, these people don't have a lot, but seem very content with their lives. unlike us, we have everything and anything and are never satisfied.

 

[Sinsear]

I wouldn't eat anything there

 

[Kaido]

It always amazes me how you can travel a few thousand miles and run into a completely different culture. Americans driving Escalades to Chinese working 100 hours a week to produce Apple parts at Foxconn to the slums of India.

I have an Indian friend who visited Dubai a couple years ago with his parents. He said it was literally different on each side of the street in some areas...one side would have opulent wealth, the other side had people dying in the street. And the community was trained to just completely ignore that side of the street as you walked & talked.

But it's hard too, because of existing situations. In American, the best you can do for a homeless person is donate some money or food on the street to them. You can't force them to change their lives; there are countless soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other programs to help them, but if they don't want to be helped, you simply cannot force them. Plus there's a good amount of homeless people with mental issues & no family support system, so they're just kind of stuck.

This world is crazy, man.

 

[SandEagle]

I wouldn't eat anything there

you are most not welcome in India.

 

[lxskllr]

I'd like to go to India some day. It's probably highest on my list for non-Eurocentric places to visit.

 

[SandEagle]

I'd like to go to India some day. It's probably highest on my list for non-Eurocentric places to visit.

you are VERY welcome to India. our people would treat you as one of their own.

 

[MrDudeMan]

I don't understand the point of this thread. I can't tell if you're praising that lifestyle or putting it down. Also, I'm perfectly content not living in a tetanus deathtrap.

 

[MrDudeMan]

I wouldn't eat anything there

Nor would I. I have literally zero desire to visit that country. There may be some cool stuff there, but I've heard far too many things that turned my stomach from people who I trust not to be overly dramatic or sensational. Pass.

 

[zerocool84]

I don't understand the point of this thread. I can't tell if you're praising that lifestyle or putting it down. Also, I'm perfectly content not living in a tetanus deathtrap.

You haven't seen the many other Indian threads the OP has created?

 

[Greenman]

Visiting an Indian slum doesn't sound like a vacation I'd be interested in. Poverty, crime, sickness, no sanitation, just not my thing. If I could afford it, I wouldn't mind going to help build infrastructure.

 

[FelixDeCat]

lol

 

[videogames101]

the world sucks

 

[Pray To Jesus]

India sucks.

 

[lyssword]

no thanks

 

[MrDudeMan]

You haven't seen the many other Indian threads the OP has created?

I've seen his threads referenced, but I've never actually read one until today.

 

[Jodell88]

The population of that slum is almost equal to the population of my country.

 

[maziwanka]

you are most not welcome in India.

i think you might have taken what he said a little too negatively - i would love to eat that stuff, but i wouldn't dare do it. i've gotten severely ill off of bad water there and it is terrible. really sad

 

[Imp]

Just tried chai... I love it.

 

[mikeford]

Just tried chai... I love it.

Chai is the generic word for tea, perhaps you had spiced chai?

 

[Vapid Cabal]

based on the pics though, these people don't have a lot, but seem very content with their lives. unlike us, we have everything and anything and are never satisfied.

Who is "we"?

I live a simple life, and consider myself very happy.

 

[Xcobra]

How's Kolkata? My company is trying to send me there for a few weeks :hmm:

 

[Thump553]

Read "Behind The Beautiful Forever" by Katherine Boo. Nonfiction and set in a modern day Indian slum, it reads like something Charles Dickens wrote.

http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Beautif...pr_product_top

 

[Vdubchaos]

I still can't believe India gets ANY tourists to be honest.

0 desire to EVER go there

Heck pay for hotel/food and the entire trip and chances are I'm still not going.

 

[busydude]

How's Kolkata? My company is trying to send me there for a few weeks :hmm:

Has seen its hey day during the British raj, but is having a revival of sorts after the communists stopped ruling the state. Just don't visit during the monsoon season.

 

[Rakehellion]

Chai is the generic word for tea

Not when you're speaking English, nerd.