Medha Patkar Around 75,000 homes of urban poor were demolished in 2004-05 in Mumbai, that situation is still infront of our eyes. Not only food and kitchen were thrown on the road but children too. Forget about older and sick, people at that time used to sleep near the dirt…
Tag: Housing
Mumbai and Shanghai- A tale of two cities
Sanjana Krishnan Alumnus St. Xavier College, Mumbai 10 years ago, the Maharashtra Government promised to make Mumbai like Shanghai. From a slum ridden, poor city in 1990, by 2005, it had become the epitome for transformation. The Mumbai to Shanghai phrase caught on like fire, generating huge amounts of excitement…
Mumbai (Mandala) Establishment blues : 55 acres of Land on the way for reclaimation by slum dwellers
[accordion_slider id=”3″] Today at 6 a.m thousands of slum dwellers of Mandala started Avaas Satygraha to reclaim their land. The land where once they lived, where they had home. In 2004, their homes were demolished by the government. Some homes were also burnt by the ‘accidental’ fire. Since then…
Beard : Housing :: Media : State
I was almost declared a terrorist in centre of Delhi at Connought Place, on 25th January 2010 by a sitting Police men, because I had a hotel card from Ladakh (J&K), where I volunteered for flood relief. He saw medal hanging in my arse, as I passed by him and the excitement increased with me wearing beard and a card of J&K in my wallet.