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"We Are Not Encroachers": Mumbai Tenants Oppose Revamp Of Chawl
Mumbai: Madhuri Dewar remembers her wedding in 1981 in the tenement building where she had lived all her life: guests sat in the colourful tent in the courtyard, packed the corridor and squeezed into the one-room home she shared with her parents. Today, Dewar, 65, lives with her husband in the same room in a Bombay Development Directorate (BDD) “...
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Pooran Poli
Dough parcels stuffed with a spice and lentil mixture and cooked on a griddle. A typical street food from Mumbai. Commonly made during the festive season.
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Residents smell dead rat, find woman's body
Residents of BDD chawl were in for a shock when they found a three-day old decomposed body of 45-year-old Manjula Khopkar in her house. Her body was found at the base of a stairway that leads to a mezzanine floor inside her one-room apartment. According to the police, Khopkar stayed alone in the house and must have been climbing the stairs in h...
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"We Are Not Encroachers": Mumbai Tenants Oppose Revamp Of Chawl
Mumbai: Madhuri Dewar remembers her wedding in 1981 in the tenement building where she had lived all her life: guests sat in the colourful tent in the courtyard, packed the corridor and squeezed into the one-room home she shared with her parents. Today, Dewar, 65, lives with her husband in the same room in a Bombay Development Directorate (BDD) “...
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Pooran Poli
Dough parcels stuffed with a spice and lentil mixture and cooked on a griddle. A typical street food from Mumbai. Commonly made during the festive season.
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Residents smell dead rat, find woman's body
Residents of BDD chawl were in for a shock when they found a three-day old decomposed body of 45-year-old Manjula Khopkar in her house. Her body was found at the base of a stairway that leads to a mezzanine floor inside her one-room apartment. According to the police, Khopkar stayed alone in the house and must have been climbing the stairs in h...
