Dharavi

You know, they clean up and then they wash their roads every morning.

I have heard that there are areas which are like, you know, Dharavi and all.

But of course, we didn't get to see any of that.

So with my tour, I was like totally, totally, totally.

India also has this proximity, but it doesn't have the same danger.

As an American, when you go to Dharavi, one of the poorest places you'll ever find, a slum in Mumbai, you feel totally [laughs] safe, and everything functions, and it seems impossible.

It is amazing.

So I think these areas appear to have relatively well-functioning social systems that basically protect their own.

Like, you know, just help the person, but if you're like living in Antela, helping thy neighbor might not, your neighbor might not be the most person who needs help.

Maybe four blocks down the line, the people in Dharavi is where you want to go, who might not be helping thy neighbor.

So in the sense, so that's the whole idea.

In the sense, there are people, animals, suffering that happens beyond where our neighborhood is.

Yeah.

Actually, I've, I went to my friends, whoever was, like, there's a girl who works in Dharavi-

Mm

... with urban, how to make urban spaces more livable for the working class community.

Lots of people from Tamil Nadu, especially southern Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari, Nagarkot, they moved to Bombay too in search of better opportunities.

And a lot of them lived in Dharavi, which is not very far from Matunga, and Sain Koliwada, which is also not very far from Matunga.

Interestingly, two of the three gangsters, the most feared gangsters of Bombay of that period were Karim Lala, Haji Mastan and Varadaraj Mudaliar.

Haji Mastan and Varadaraj Mudaliar were both from Tamil Nadu.

Second biggest in India.

Second biggest slum after Dharavi.

Which one?

It's Addakutta-