• Why is Dharavi the heart of Mumbai? Dharavi is one of the largest slums in Asia. Dharavi’s economic output is estimated to be approximately 1 billion US dollars annually. Much of that revenue is generated by the Rubies informal recycling industry. Over 20 million people live in Mumbai and produce over 6,500 tons of garbage every single day. Over 85% of that waste is recycled. Normally people think slum is all poor people left there, but we are trying to show the different set of Dharavi slums, which is a sense of community and friendly and hard work hard-working people. It is inhabited by different kinds of people- very poor people and also very, very rich who export stuff from here and make millions of rupees. So, it’s a city within the city. We love doing this tour in Dharavi because this is not a monument where information is always the same. Here we meet the real people and the real side of slums, and this is how we are trying to change the legend about the Dharavi slums in Mumbai. It is one of the most vibrant centres for extreme entrepreneurship on our planet. It has many thriving small-scale industries that produce plastic recycling, export quality leather goods, pottery, embroidered garments, and many more. These products are made in tiny manufacturing and sold in domestic and international markets. Most of these things are created innovatively, in a very small space! The most interesting thing is the guide himself lives in the Dharavi slum

Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India