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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:27:38 +0530
| the ideal city according to planners
Dharavi makeover now a model for the world
Kavitha Iyer
Mumbai, April 20: THAT global eyes and camera lenses are focusing on
Dharavi is not new—from The Chicago Tribune to BBC News, everybody has
been visiting. Still, if there remained any doubt about the intense
world interest in Dharavi’s future, these can now be put to rest. The
May 2007 issue of National Geographic has put Dharavi on the cover, in a
feature titled “India’s Shadow City”.
Reporting on the poor living in “some of India’s hottest real estate”,
National Geographic writer Mark Jacobson and photo-journalist Jonas
Bendiksen tell an evocative story of the lakhs residing in “the most
diverse of slums, arguably the most diverse neighbourhood in Mumbai,
India’s most diverse city”.
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http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=232655