Maharashtra

This afternoon I visited Dharavi, the biggest slum in Asia. Originally factories occupied this area. They gave each worker a one-room space for living. At a certain point, a labor disagreement caused the factories to shut down, and the workers lost their jobs. The disagreement is still hung up in the courts many decades later. …

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This morning the tour started at 5:30am to see Mumbai in the early hours. First stop was the newspaper distributors. As many languages are spoken in Mumbai, the newspapers are printed in many languages. Print journalism still thrives.

This morning I visited the Elefanta Caves, an UNESCO Heritage Site located on an island about 10km east of the city in the bay of Mumbai. Ferries leave from the Gateway of India and take over an hour to reach the island. This young man and his mother on the ferry are from Dubai. The …

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I landed in Mumbai on time and was picked up by woman driver I had arranged through the hotel. She drove us over the Bandra–Worli Sea Link, officially called Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, a cable-stayed bridge that links Bandra in the Western Suburbs of Mumbai with Worli in South Mumbai.