Comments on: Upper and Lower Mumbai: A Tale of Two Cities http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/31/upper-and-lower-mumbai-a-tale-of-two-cities/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hilmar http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/31/upper-and-lower-mumbai-a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-5835 Hilmar Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:32:50 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/05/31/132#comment-5835 When I came for the first time to (then) Bombay, I thought poor people would live in slums. By the time I learned that real poor people do live on the pavements. I learned that begging is a business. And I learned that people do not starve in the cities. If people starve they starve silently somewhere on the countryside. In the city there is hope, there is the struggle, there is the (human) rat race. The people who come to live in the city haven't give up yet, Bollywood be with them. When I came for the first time to (then) Bombay, I thought poor people would live in slums. By the time I learned that real poor people do live on the pavements. I learned that begging is a business. And I learned that people do not starve in the cities. If people starve they starve silently somewhere on the countryside. In the city there is hope, there is the struggle, there is the (human) rat race. The people who come to live in the city haven’t give up yet, Bollywood be with them.

]]> By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » The Triple Point of the World at Zero Degrees Humanity http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/31/upper-and-lower-mumbai-a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-5644 Atanu Dey on India’s Development » The Triple Point of the World at Zero Degrees Humanity Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:39:24 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/05/31/132#comment-5644 [...] second world while most of Lower Parel is in the third world. I had noted in this journal the distinction between upper and lower Mumbai where I wrote:Mumba [...] [...] second world while most of Lower Parel is in the third world. I had noted in this journal the distinction between upper and lower Mumbai where I wrote:Mumba [...]

]]> By: Anirban Banerjee http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/31/upper-and-lower-mumbai-a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-3477 Anirban Banerjee Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:23:08 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/05/31/132#comment-3477 Hi, Can you pls provide some the percentage breakup of income groups in Mumbai in terms of Very Rich, Rich, Upper Middle Middle. As I understand from the from the different secondary sources and websites about 60% of Mumbai lives in slums. Your info will be a big help for my study on the Mumbai market. Thanks Anirban Hi,

Can you pls provide some the percentage breakup of income groups in Mumbai in terms of Very Rich, Rich, Upper Middle Middle. As I understand from the from the different secondary sources and websites about 60% of Mumbai lives in slums. Your info will be a big help for my study on the Mumbai market.

Thanks

Anirban

]]> By: uma http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/31/upper-and-lower-mumbai-a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-987 uma Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:21:55 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/05/31/132#comment-987 disturbingly true. disturbingly true.

]]> By: Patrick Bennett http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/31/upper-and-lower-mumbai-a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Patrick Bennett Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/05/31/132#comment-213 I think a very similar situation exists in the eastern coastal cities of China (although from the sound of it they are somewhat more sanitary than Mumbai). A "first world" populace has emerged to work post-modern jobs, enjoy the latest consumer goodies and clog the roads with brand spankin' new sedans. But this lifestyle still takes place in surroundings that are decidedly less "developed". I see luxury condo projects rising amidst horribly polluted canals and unkept fields of trash. European luxury sedans still have to navigate the throngs of bicycles, tricyles and dirty flatbed trucks full of dirty migrant workers. I've always found it interesting how much of a struggle it is to get some of these people to recognize they live in a country that is still mostly poor, overcrowded and rural. They talk as if they are the rule, not the rather obvious exception. I think a very similar situation exists in the eastern coastal cities of China (although from the sound of it they are somewhat more sanitary than Mumbai).

A “first world” populace has emerged to work post-modern jobs, enjoy the latest consumer goodies and clog the roads with brand spankin’ new sedans.

But this lifestyle still takes place in surroundings that are decidedly less “developed”.
I see luxury condo projects rising amidst horribly polluted canals and unkept fields of trash. European luxury sedans still have to navigate the throngs of bicycles, tricyles and dirty flatbed trucks full of dirty migrant workers.

I’ve always found it interesting how much of a struggle it is to get some of these people to recognize they live in a country that is still mostly poor, overcrowded and rural.

They talk as if they are the rule, not the rather obvious exception.

]]> By: sudeep http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/31/upper-and-lower-mumbai-a-tale-of-two-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-214 sudeep Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/05/31/132#comment-214 atanu, if you want to see an even greater divide, may be you should visit New Delhi :-D In Bombay, at least the high rises have been built by private enterprise, mostly not because of the govt, but inspite of the govt. atanu, if you want to see an even greater divide, may be you should visit New Delhi :-D

In Bombay, at least the high rises have been built by private enterprise, mostly not because of the govt, but inspite of the govt.

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