INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Views of Moinia Masjid, the largest mosque in Dharavi, located in the industrial Area. In the foreground people stand on one of the big water pipes that cross into Dharavi on their way south into the city. The ladder is leading from the pipe up to one of the houses that sits above the pipe. About forty percent of the slums' population are muslim, the rest primarily Hindus.

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.