Dharavi is India's biggest slum are, located in Mumbai. — AFP
BENGALURU: Dharavi is known as Asia’s biggest slum, its swathe of tightly packed hutments with blue tarpaulin roofs unmissable to anyone who flies over Mumbai. But to residents like Anita Subhash, a domestic worker, Dharavi is the core – “the beating heart” – of India’s financial capital.
The 50-year-old mother of five adults, three of whom live with her and work as teacher, salesman and computer coder in Dharavi, has been looking forward to a long-pending redevelopment project of the government-owned land that promises to decongest the slum of one million residents.
