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Slums of Mumbai

In 1991, the same year that India began an aggressive campaign of economic liberalization, a slum in the heart of Mumbai called Annawadi was established. It is an overcrowded settlement with 3,000 people squatting on land owned by the international airport. The slum is just one part of a story of modern India that is divided by class, religion and gender.

Join Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo to explore the socioeconomic and political realities of the most disadvantaged citizens of the world’s largest democracy.

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