Mumbai’s infamous chawls — crammed, dilapidated apartment blocks often too dangerous for living — are home to a major portion of the city’s 15 million people and offer a major lesson in mutual adjustment and community living.
These two- and three-storeyed matchbox structures, sometimes too crumbling and shaky for comfort, are home to millions of lower middle class tenants — mostly belonging to the working class.
Last month’s collapse of four old buildings in the city killing some 20 people and the subsequent government drive to evacuate 107 “dangerous” buildings, some of them over 100 years old, have put the spotlight on the city’s chawls.
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These two- and three-storeyed matchbox structures, sometimes too crumbling and shaky for comfort, are home to millions of lower middle class tenants — mostly belonging to the working class.
Last month’s collapse of four old buildings in the city killing some 20 people and the subsequent government drive to evacuate 107 “dangerous” buildings, some of them over 100 years old, have put the spotlight on the city’s chawls.
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