MurphOnMillerAve wrote:I just saw "Slumdog Millionaire" for the third time since it came out eleven years ago. It is still a great delight .
Coronavirus: The race to stop the virus spread in Asia's 'biggest slum'
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52159986
On 23 March, a 56-year-old man living in a vast, labyrinthine slum in the western Indian city of Mumbai went to see a doctor. He was feeling feverish and had a bad cough.
The garment trader lived in Dharavi where more than half-a-million people are spread over 2.5 grubby sq km, which is less than a square mile. (Imagine a population larger than Manchester living in an area smaller than Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.) The slum was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire film and city planners from all over the world have studied its throbbing economy and society.
