INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. Leather tannery workers drying skins on a n open space in the Kalyanwadi area, the traditional leather tannery area of Dharavi. The number of tanneries has dropped dramatically over the years, as most of that industry has shifted out of Bombay, many in Chennai. The tanneries are among Dharavi's original industries, although most of them have closed down today, partially because of the polluting nature of the industry

The BBC has estimated that the thousands of small businesses in Dhraavi add up to a yearly economic output of up to a billion dollars per year.

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.