Slamming the slum tours

Despite the rising popularity of India’s slum tours, activists have raised their voices against slum tourism enterprises which they feel encourage an unabashed and unhealthy interest in poor people’s lives.

“It is voyeuristic, the worst form of exploitation of the poor,” asserts Subha Mazumdar, a Delhi University professor. “Such tours are a crime against poverty and an affront to the dignity of slum dwellers.”