MUMBAI – In Dharavi, India’s biggest slum ... many also prefer to call it an informal settlement rather than a slum. The Patil family home – which has space only for the barest of ...

In a nutshell, TDR is a property development tool which has been ruthlessly financialised in Mumbai ... of any slum or informal settlement, let alone one as massive and complex as Dharavi.

Artisans in Kumbharwada, part of Dharavi, fear displacement due ... The pottery business changed as slums mushroomed around the settlement, and the open fields at their periphery transformed ...

MUMBAI: We have lived here for 200 years ... The pottery business changed as slums mushroomed around the settlement, and the open fields at their periphery transformed into a concrete jungle.