Showing off our money belt fashion.
Shiva temple icons.
Walking along the Banganga Tank.
An ant hill near Bangalore.
Reflecting on our day.
We went to Dharavi slum today. This is what I expected Mumbai to be like. Why is that? Every part of Mumbai can't possibly be like a slum, so why is that what people talk about? Even still, the slum wasn't what I thought a slum would be like. I thought a slum was filled with poor, broken, hopeless people sitting around. In reality it is a very industrious place filled with energetic and working people. Yes, it was filthy in the streets and had overwhelming smells at times, but it had sewing factories, tanneries, potters, plastic recycling facilities, and even bakeries. It had temples, mosques, schools, and community centers. We learned that what makes a slum a slum is that the government owns the land and people live on it illegally. It has nothing to do with economics.
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