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People in Mumbai | South Mumbai | Powai Lake | Elephanta Island

People in Mumbai

During my visits, I fully appreciated the huge disparity between the rich and the poor in India. Inside a restaurant of a deluxe hotel, a lot of Indians enjoy expensive food. In contrast, so many poor people live on dusty streets.
Peanut Hawker
Peanut Hawker		 Metal Hats?
Metal Hats?		 Made Her Wonder
Made Her Wonder		 Painfully Shy
Painfully Shy
A Mother
A Mother		 A Mother
A Mother

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CM Kwan20-Nov-2006 13:43
Santanu, many thanks for letting me and other visitors know the situation of India. CM.
Santanu 20-Nov-2006 00:22
The disparity you see is mostly because a majority of the migrants are coming from two very poor states - Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Fleeing those two feudal, mis-ruled states, they are unskilled workers and big cities like Mumbai are their only hope (or so they wrongly think). Kolkata has already been swamped by migrants and they outnumber the locals and are 70% of the population in the city proper. A similar trashing is happening in Mumbai and Delhi is also feeling the effects. Unless these two states with 25% of India's population and sub saharan HDIs improve, there is little chance that the rest of India can develop in isolation.
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