A Day in Dharavi : Asia's Largest Slum

[tru3prodigy]

how to solve it? mind giving an idea for the initiative??????

[zarafatima1]

Yaar song acha hai:):):)....but dekh kr vomiting ho rahi hai....yakkkkkk thoooooooooo

[zarafatima1]

Indians ..... don't produce Atom Bombs coz u don't need for Weapons ..... but to fight with ur Filthiness......lolzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzz:P:P:P:P

first pay heed towards ur people..... do something for their better way of living.......Zara**

[phutureb]

Sure, there is filth in Dharavi, but there is also hope and happiness, and it is in many ways a success story. It is a vibrant, relatively low-crime community with an astounding level of entrepreneurship, and a place where *everything* gets recycled. The people there are building their own futures and don't need our pity or charity. They *could* probably use some composting toilets, and for tourists to spend money there. Do a YouTube search for "Ch4 Slumming It: Episode 1 ¦ 480p [3/4]"

[AAY324]

feels bad about this slums... please respect all people... do not put this kind of videos to public.. atlest respect poor people...

[preeshcode]

I believe despite the poverty something can be done about the squalor. There are a lot of people living there. They can take it upon themselves to keep the place neat and clean. There are very very low cost ways of doing this. Also, through government grants, low cost solar panels can light up a lot of power needs. Also, someone setup an internet site for them to sell their goods. They can live outside of mumbai and make and sell their stuff to everyone. Use 21st century solutions.

[AsianMissy2k9]

@preeshcode

First, all the rubbish isnt produced by the people living in the squalors, its from other parts of the city being dumped into the area, and secondly, there isnt enough money for solar panels or internet sites. and lastly , ypu say they can just live outside mumbai and sell form there, but thats easier said than done. you think that a whole lot of people are just gonna move out like that?

[preeshcode]

@AsianMissy2k9

Then dont allow dumping. Wherever the garbage is from, it is not that expensive or time consuming to enforce basic cleanliness standards, no matter how poor you are. The Indian Government subsidizes solar panels and that can be used for minimal lighting and garbage removal. And,yes, people can move and sell from anywhere. It is the digital age. Everything can be done. Cheap solutions exist! Where is India?

[AsianMissy2k9]

@preeshcode

Actually it is expensive and time consuming, tell me where they're gonna find space to dump the rubbish? It's also expenisve to create the large dumps. Even today, developed countries like the UK and USA have problems with finding where to dump their rubbish, due to their dumps becoming filled up, and their population growing, leading to more consumptions in goods. They even pay other countries to bury their rubbish there. You think rubbish just disappears? It has to go somewhere.

[420npillz]

Hey, how can millions of people live in apartment complexes?

[umerayub]

I thought the whole of India was a a big slum

[lisalucy6210]

thank you for posting this video! It's exactly want I want to tell people. We need to pay more attention to this.

[Dianne724]

I love this video, but I'm absolutely furious near the end of the video when it says "You don't care." I do care about these people, and so do my parents, they sponsored a child for 17 years and her life turned out to be amazing. I'm going to sponsor someone today or in a few days. People do care.

[32xxMHPxx32]

Bombay is the largest slums in the world

[KirkTheGod]

look, enough with the stupid videos, making other people feel bad, what can we do? HONESTLY! can we somehow change everything? get rid of all the corrupt politicians, all the problems, all the poverty, all the people that have caused it, dont go thinking that its a problem that just fell on you.. maybe not everyone brought it on themselves, but who are the people who started littering and polluting in the first place? who didn't build the toilets, and the houses..

[habbadou]

Who is the nose-plugged white liberal narrating this? How annoying. Pass the guilt-ridden elitist.

[itzahazylife]

u nor i should personally feel guilt, but we should feel deep sorrow..and for some reason, i get the feeling that u could care less..

[atharva5]

abay sale chutiye come to south bombay ill show how beautifull it is u guys are so buyest...

[egindhart]

I agree that it is beautiful in Mumbai, but it is not okay for so many people to live in squalor while much of the world is being hugely wasteful and taking basic necessities for granted.

[KOOL2011]

@atharva5 Truth hurts so you turn to foul mouth? lol

[ashish1099]

Dharavi was once it's undisputed largest slum[10] - but now Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan's main slum, might claim that title with about 1,000,000 residents packed into 20 square miles.

[ashish1099]

last year there was a student from mumbai universty who has topped in top 11, and alll the leather products are manufactured here and every single products that you wont be getting any where in mumbai but u will be getting dharavi

[ASHIFSHAIKH]

we should be happy that we are not born in to poverty this is a very good film well done

[zedono1391]

u r lucky u r not born here or a place like this somewhere else. u r lucky that u do not grow up in a place like this. u r luckier if u can get out of this kind of place n be successful. if u were born in a rich and developed country to a rich family...then u r lucky that the slums missed u like a bullet zipping past ur head by just a few millimeters.

[wishuponamural]

Why can't thier own government or political figures help the people there.

It's not that the people here in the USA don't want to help, by God we do, but when we are never told what goes on in other countries we simply don't know about all the horrors.

We ourselves face eviction from out homes every day, wonder where food will come from, but there are those people who are rich in the owrld and don't give to shits about others.

They have no heart for other people.

[Shahryar1uk]

US govt. can't help Katrina victims! Let it sort out its own country first!

People with money choose to live in Dharavi! They are addicted to not having to pay any city service taxes!

[zore786]

Thank you for this video. GOD bless all the poor and suffering children.

[beartype120]

Impossible to solve these problems unless breeding is curbed.

[egindhart]

the use of the term 'breeding' is not appreciated as people in India are not animals, but people

[TwoDogsX2]

@egindhart Last time I checked humans were in the animal kingdom, and they also breed

[JennaSmith987]

Breeding? Your parents should not have bred you. Would have been a lot easier on rest of the world.

The richest man in UK is an Indian, namely Lakshmi Mittal, who is worth more than 20 Billion Sterling.

Human Population is not the problem, it is the distribution of food and wealth that is the problem.

People like beartype are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[GOBADONG]

nice video. very helpful to dharavi people

Im fr

[db8hotti]

@GOBADONG I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[miln40]

India should change radically, however this is very difficult, when you take into account the huge language/religious/ethnic diversity and the strength ancient tradition still has on these people. In my opinion, the government should drastically increase its social spending. Even if it hurts the economy, in the long run, it will improve conditions. However, the US and the capitalist west would not approve of such "leftist" measures as caring for the poor.

[marqui6969]

Now don't underestimate.. In the last two years India bought $5 Billions ( Rs 10,000 Crores) worth of arms from Israel alone.. and thas just the tip of the iceberg... If indians live in slums may be thier POLITICIANS think they deserve it..just like shit belongs in the shitpot.

[Jibbie49]

I'd give money for birth control for those women, so they could stop having children they can't feed. Poor women deal with men who want SONS and care nothing about how the women survive.

[egindhart]

Maybe you should give money to feed them.

Or maybe you should get to know people and their culture before you judge them.

It would be wrong for me to judge you solely based on the fact that you have watched 10,724 youtube videos in less than 2 years.

People have different cultures, pity is not in order; sympathy, empathy and understanding are.

India has made great strides in decreasing rates of female foticide, and for that they should be praised. Change takes time.

[killakadafi77]

well said, life should be charished, birth control is one thing but life is needed, money should go to communities not abortion clinics and crap like that.

[egindhart]

I agree. People running abortion clinics in India have their heart in the wrong place (in many cases.) While optional birth control offered to women inexpensively is fine in my book (there is noting wrong with family planning and it is a responsible choice to do so) discarding of a fetus after conception is a very personal decision that should not be handled lightly. If adequate counseling for women considering abortion is not available, abortions should not be available at all.

[adpbilla]

Over 80% Indians are poor! people are messy!They pee on the road!They even eat their own shit!

[egindhart]

non-sequitor alert

this video is about Indian slums, particularly those in Mumbai (Bombay)

compared to the American middle-class, almost everyone (98%+) in India is poor

While many people in slums live in squalored conditions, they take pride in their appearance. Urinating in the road is as common there as it is in the US and people by no means eat their own fecal matter.

Your demeaning statements are not appreciated.

[killakadafi77]

idiot

[egindhart]

Your demeaning words are not appreciated, whether directed towards me or adpbilla who in this situation made an ignorant and offensive comment.

[killakadafi77]

adpbilla did, he said something completely stupid

[egindhart]

You should not pass judgment upon people you do not know, or on people you do know, for that matter. Ignorance is a disease and people should not be demeaned for being diseased.

[killakadafi77]

a disease is something you have no or very little control over, so it is a hereditary disease but very curable, if people are going to say ignorant things it shouldne be ignored, maybe i chose the wrong wording but you have to admit that it was very ignorant and heartless to say what he said

[egindhart]

very true...

[killakadafi77]

your right though, calling someone an idoit wont make them wanna change

[roswellatup]

how gross, mumbai is so dirty! yuck

[peppermint9012]

It is dirty, but gross is an overstatement. Spend 10 minutes there and you will be adjusted. And that is the problem, people are used to it so they don't see the need for sanitation services. The trash you see isn't the least of their problems, their water is completely non-potable, and I don't mean that for people not accustomed to it, even people who have drank that water for their whole life still get salmonella and other asssociated water born diseases.

[egindhart]

I guess I was signed into my sister's account!

Sorry for not replying under my own screen name and I hope you do not take any offense to my perceived untimeliness.

[joemb1977]

Mumbai now has some of the the most expensive property in the world just a hop, skip and a jump away from that shithole.

CAPITALISM..WHAT A JOKE.

[egindhart]

Mumbai is home to the most expensive property, and those "shithole"s are being torn down and the residents are rendered homeless all so some guy with a BMW can make a quick buck. I guess that might just be what capitalism is all about: people getting rich while telling themselves that they are making the world a better place.

(Its more of a hop, swerve to miss oncoming traffic, and swim in polluted water away, though)

[365weedfiend]

whos the tune by

[egindhart]

The song is Ranjha Ranjha by Himmat Singh, it features Lyrical U.G

It is from the CD Bombay Bronx that I got at a music shop in India.

[365weedfiend]

cheers for d info

[rachaelgreen77]

I love your video! I am a westerner from Australia. I would just like to say I feel for everyone in such unfortunate circumstances. I don't however belive that trying to make wealthly people feel guilt is the way to open their hearts and wallets. I sponser a little girl in India and give money to other causes. You must undrstand though that there is a limit to what each person can do even though we are realatively wealthy. I have felt great depression as I wish to do more than I can.

[egindhart]

Thank you so much for loving the video and for sponsoring that little girl. I agree that guilt is not the key to people's hearts or pockets. I did this for a speech class and was simply trying to get my peers to understand the scope of the atrocities and the reactions of many people in the West. I wanted them to realize how they react to such occurrences (by simply saying "too bad, so sad.") Maybe if they change their habits now, they can change the world later. That was my hope.