Notes on the Geography of Peninsular India: Mumbai: An Andheri SlumThe Bombay/Mumbai Airport is famously surrounded by immense slums. Here we walk through one part of a slum in Andheri East, just north of the airport. Make default image size larger ![]() The Andheri-Kurla or Mathuradas Vansanji Road: nothing to alert you to what lies off to the side. ![]() Roadside vendors and, in the background, a new building housing the Axis Bank, Electrolux India, and Skoda. ![]() A nameless side road. ![]() This is an industrial neighborhood, but one without segregated land uses: everything is right here, piled up. ![]() Taxi repair shops. ![]() A temple; water main in background. ![]() A woman resting in the temple grounds. ![]() A vacant lot-cum-playground. ![]() Kids. ![]() A bike repair shop-cum-martial arts studio. ![]() Ready for Bollywood. ![]() And, of course, apartments, rented by the month and with a steep initial deposit. ![]() A room with a view. ![]() Laundry. ![]() Sweet shop. ![]() A drainage ditch. ![]() Doorstep pipeline. ![]() Girl in white. ![]() Two boys. ![]() Mother and child. ![]() Boy. ![]() Mother and child. ![]() Resting against the pipeline. ![]() Young men relaxing with a televised soccer match. ![]() Father and son. ![]() Playground. ![]() Instantly ready for a picture. ![]() Inside a Buddhist temple, the Buddha is flanked by a suited Dr. Ambedkar, an Untouchable who famously rose against all odds. ![]() The community latrine. ![]() Adjoining drain. |
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