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Distro - Dharavi: Mumbai's Shadow City 

Jonas Bendiksen 

We are at an unprecedented watershed in human history: In 2008 the urban population of the planet will for the first time overtake the rural. At the almost the exact same moment, the number of people living in slums is passing one billion, or a third of every person living in a city or town. The United Nations predicts that over the next few decades, the world’s slum population will double, meaning the urban slum is perhaps the fastest growing human habitat on the planet.

This story leads the reader through one of the largest of Mumbai’s slums, Dharavi. Presenting plenty of squalor right in... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. A girl walks along a water pipe in the Industrial... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Overviews of the northwestern corner of... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. The Shilpiri family household. This family... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. The Shilpiri family household. This family... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. A man peeks out of his 'godown' (big warehouse... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Meena Lohar, a mother of one and carpenter's... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Next to the Sion-Dharavi Bridge and the... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Just below the big water pipes by the Industrial... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. At a barrel recycling business, workers... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. In the Khumbarwada, the Gujarati potters'... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Scenes from around the Khumbarwada, the... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. In the Khumbharwada, the Gujarati potterer's... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Just off Dharavi Main Road and Jama Masjid,... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Leather tannery workers drying skins on... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Just off Dharavi Main Road and Jama Masjid,... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Men sleeping in a Dharavi Pongal House,... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. In a garment factory, about 45 employees... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. A business for recycling tin cans mainly... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Views of Moinia Masjid, the largest mosque... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. On Dharavi's Main Road, muslims gather for... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Worshippers during a Saturday prayers at... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. A late-monsoon squall comes down on Dharavis'... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Ganesha Temple on the road leading to Old... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Mukesh Mehta, the urban planner masterminding... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. At the edge of the Khumbarwada, a SRA slum... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. In the Lokmanya Cooperative Housing Society,... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. At the ABC housing complex in Dharavi, a... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Mukesh Mehta, the urban planner masterminding... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. From the edge of New Dharavi, children play... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Families shopping for food along Dharavi... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. The Star Carrom Club in Khumbarwada area,... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. In the Singh household on Dr. Rajendra Prasad... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. In the Singh household on Dr. Rajendra Prasad... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. A mother and her child in a small one-room... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Dharavi slum. From the Kumbhi household... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Gangu Kadam Devdas (right) talking to neighbors... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. From the Marsha Forest pre-school. It is... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. The Dr. Ambedkar Vidayala school, a private... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. The Dr. Ambedkar Vidayala school, a private... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. During the festival of Ganpati, revelers... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. People passing the evening in a teashop... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Overview of a small section of Dharavi,... 

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INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. A little girl playing in Laxmi Chawl, a... 
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