Jonas Bendiksen | The Places We Live A girl plays in Laxmi Chawl, a neighborhood of Dharavi. The little lightbulbs are put out for a wedding. Mumbai, India. 2006.
Dharavi is one of Mumbai's biggest and longest standing slums. Home
(...) to somewhere between 600,000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos