Dharavi Essays

Imagine getting put in jail for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread. This is what Jean Valjean had to experience. Jean Valjean, the main character of Tom Hooper’s drama Les Miserables, gets out of prison, where he was put for stealing a loaf of bread, at the beginning of the movie. After being told that he’d be let out of jail, his dreams of living a normal life were utterly shattered within a couple seconds. This happened because Javert gave him a slip of paper marking him as a ‘dangerous’

Martin Scorsese is a famous hollywood producer and director that makes real life stories into blockbuster films. His biggest films The Wolf of Wall Street and Goodfellas share the same kind of story even though they are both based on true stories about different people with different backgrounds. Both the stories share how the main character is a success driven individual that strives and achieves a life of excess and the feeling of being invincible. Scorsese uses the same kind of pause stop directing

The reading this week is by Mike Davis, and is titled Planet of Slums. Mike Davis creates an argument on how slums are a worldly issue that is spreading. Davis first begins his argument with statistics based on the monumental increase of population in all countries across the globe. He also uses examples of the increase of hypercities and megacities due to intensified urbanization in Mexico-city, Seoul-Injon, and New York. Which leads into the effects on the citizens, such as China and India, and

Slumming it is a documentary on one of Mumbai's largest slum, Dharavi. The narrator, Kevin McCloud’s voice is the dominate one of this documentary, as we are shown Dharavi through his perspective and his editors who effect what the audience sees throughout this documentary. The viewer is shown Kevin’s perspective on Dharavi mostly negative. In the beginning of the documentary we share his doubts about this slum, which lacks everything developed countries have, but still somehow be happier and better

Sandy and sun-kissed beaches, pristine sea water, and picturesque island sceneries are among the attractions for tourists to wish to set their feet on. But, have you ever wondered that there are surprisingly horrendous cities advocated by subcultures of pollution, gangsters or poverty? These places have been considered as most polluted, horrible, miserable and violence places in the world. Mogadiscio, Somalia Mogadiscio or Mogadishu, literally means ‘The Seat of the Shah, is the largest city in

“Blessing” is a poem by Imtiaz Dharker. It is set in Dharavi, a shanty town on the outskirts of Bombay. In these areas, temperatures can go above 40oC during dry season and water is generally scarce. The poem describes an incident where a pipe that carries water to the city bursts in the slums and the whole community rushes to collect the water. Dharker uses various poetic techniques such as simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, imagery and metaphor to portray how the people in this poor community

A man struggles, unable to rise to his feet. A woman toils, unable to support her companion. A fuchsia basket torments, unable to consider the damage it inflicts. A society discriminates, unable to give its workers equality. In his painting Cargador de Flores, Diego Rivera denounces subjugation by portraying two commoners and their constant struggle to survive. Rivera employs these workers as a representation of the proletariat class of Mexico, and by utilizing his illustration to depict the working

expels and case studies to explore, countries at different levels of economic development and how this affects their planning and management of urban areas, and how they differ from one another. I will explore the London 2012 Olympic site, Sao Paulo, Dharavi and Curitiba all places around the world that are all at different stages of economic development and it has shown with their management of planning of the urban area. Measuring the economic development of the area, can be done with the use

Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his debut novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge prison in 1980 and fled to India for ten years. Hiding in Mumbai ,he set up charitable foundations to assist slum dwellers, worked in the Bollywood film industry as extras and served time in Arthur Road prison. He was recruited by one of the most charismatic branches of the Mumbai mafia for whom he worked as a forger, counterfeiter

in the backdrop of the Mumbai slums and shows the life of a former street child Jamal, the protagonist and his struggle to reach the top. At different points in the film various Indian social elements are reflected. The movie starts off with the Dharavi locality, one of the biggest slums in the world. Everything in the locality, right from the housing, sanitation and hygiene lack standard and are in a very deteriorating state. The presence of slums in India reflects the overpopulation in

MOTHERHOOD – OPPRESSION AND DELIGHT The ambivalence in maternal experience and attitude is reflected in a variety of poems, which focus on the theme of motherhood. Imtiaz Darker’s poem “Zarina’s Mother,” reflects Marxist Feminism in an even more powerful way. The poem depicts an elite woman who is also a mother, watching another mother who is poor, has four children and facing poverty and related hardships in life. The speaker becomes aware of the gap between her own experience and that of a mother

India, being a country of diversities, it seems that it can hardly escape from the curses of political hatred, conflict and riot; so it is quite natural that the writers focusing on India may highlight these problems. Since it is the first novel on the theme of partition, Train to Pakistan projects a realistic picture of those nightmarish and fretful days accompanying the division. It is regarded that Khushwant Singh intended to name the novel as Mano Majra which hints the static, but later he selected