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bonjour ,

pouvez-vous m'aider SVP je dois rendre tout cel apour lundi =S

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Mumbai's shadow city

I live in a corner of Mumbai called Dharavi, in a cramped hundred-square-foot shack wich has no natural light or ventilation with a corrugated metal sheet serving as the roof over my head. It vibrates violently whenever a train passes overhead. There is no running water and non sanitation. This is all I can afford. But I am not alone in Dharavi. There are a million people like me, packed in a two-hundred hectare trinagle of swampy urban wasteland, where we live like animals and die like insects. Destitue migrants from all over the country jostle with each other for their own handfull of sky in Asia's biggest slum. There are daily squabbles over inches of space, over a bucket of water which at times turn deadly. Dharavi's residents come from the dusty backwaters of Bihar and UP and Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. They came to Mumbai, the city of gold, with dreams in their hearts of striking it rich and living upper-middle-class live. But that gold turned to lead a long time ago, leaving behind rusted hearts and gangrenous minds. Like my own. But for the starving residents of Dharavi, this is home.

Amidst the modern skyscrapers and neon-lit shopping complexes of Mumbai, Dharavi sits like a cancerous lump in the heart of the city. And the city refuses to recognize it. So it has outlawed it. All the houses in Dharavi are "illegal constructions", liable to be demolished at any time. But when the residents are struggling simply to survive, they don't care. So they live in illegal houses and use illegal electricity, drink illegal water and watch illegal cable TV. They work in Dharvi's numerous illegal factories and illegal shops, and even travel illegally without ticket on the local trains which pass directly through the colony.

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