Festival season at Kumbharwada, Dharavi

- by Deepa Krishnan With Diwali around the corner, the kilns at Kumbharwada are going non-stop. If you go now, you will see women and men wo...

A wedding (and cool biryani!) at Chamda Bazaar

-by Aishwarya Pramod Recently my mother and I attended a wedding reception at Chamda Bazaar (in Dharavi). The bride was the sister of Fahim,...

Anda-Pav

- By Deepa Krishnan Anda-Pav (Baida-Pav) is one of Mumbai's lesser known delights. I clicked this photo on one of the main thoroughfares...

Bollywood dreams

- By Deepa Krishnan There's a little pink house in Dharavi, where dreams are made. When you look at it, it doesn't seem very differe...

Dharavi Photos: Colours of Ramzan

- by Deepa Krishnan Aishwarya and I went to Dharavi today, to meet some women who make papads. It was around 4:00 p.m., when we walked throu...

Cosmopolitan Mumbai

I was telling someone about how cosmopolitan Mumbai is; but other than anecdotal stuff, I found it very hard to prove! I mean, how does one...

Sacrifice

- by Deepa Krishnan The old man was kind to me as usual. Salaam-alekum , I said, as we walked into his soap-recycling workshop in Dharavi. ...

Living alongside Slumbai

- by Janaki Krishnan . Mumbai's slums have been attracting so much attention these days that we should probably rename the city Slumbai....

One morning in Dharavi

- by Deepa Krishnan . It was 7:00 a.m. I had dropped my daughter at school, and was driving home past Bandra Kurla Complex, when I saw a tow...