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...

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...

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...

A Goddess for the Summer

- by Deepa Krishnan The fierce April heat brings with it rashes, skin diseases and the dreaded pox. . Before it was eradicated in India, sm...