Mumbai (Bombay)
Photographs of Mumbai (Bombay), India, including Dharavi, the Worli Sealink Bridge, Bandra, Malabar Hill, Chowpatty Beach, Crawford Market, Mahim Bay, Juhu Beach and the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. If Mumbai isn’t the craziest city on Earth I don’t know what is. I love it though, due to the spirit and warmth of the people. Mumbai is 20+ million people crammed into a landscape of highrises, ocean beaches, bridges, slums, bays, stadiums, hills, glamorous shopping malls, jewelry dealers, and garbage dumps. It would take a lifetime to really know and understand Mumbai. India’s financial capital and slum capital, nowhere in India is income inequality more apparent. There are individuals in Mumbai with more wealth than ten million of their fellow Indians. Barefoot girls panhandle at busy intersections amid Ferraris and Rolls-Royces.
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Air pollution in Mumbai, India is acute, with some reports suggesting breathing the air is akin to smoking a pack or two of cigarettes a day. The city's 20 million people and countless vehicles, factories and construction sites create a thick pall over the city on many days.
An airplane approaches the Mumbai airport, as seen from a 20-story apartment rooftop in the Powai area of Mumbai, India.
An airplane approaches the Mumbai airport, as seen from a 20-story apartment rooftop in the Powai area of Mumbai, India.
The much lauded recycling program in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India is not all positives. Here children work in a dark, dirty, poorly ventilated room dismantling old shoes and sandals, while their taskmaster sits in a chair all day wearing a face mask to guard against the rubber particles and the constant exhaust fumes from the busy road outside the shop. Here he is receiving a blessing. The bulk of the recycling in Dharavi is plastic, and children work in many of those shops as well.
Typical water quality in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, likely the most crowded square mile on Earth with about a million people. Some of the public canals are used as a latrine, and a dense concentration of small factories discharge chemicals into the water.
Signs warning of the increased risk of malaria due to global warming, near Victoria Station, Mumbai, India.
Signs warning of the increased risk of malaria due to global warming, near Victoria Station, Mumbai, India.
Signs warning of the increased risk of malaria due to global warming, near Victoria Station, Mumbai, India.
A man who repairs lanterns at his fantastic little shop near the Dockyards Railway Station, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Mural art dealing with gender equality themes done by students of the Sir J.J. Insititute for Applied Arts, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Boys from a squatter's camp of fishing familes in Mumbai, India work for meager catches in the Arabian sea, near Chowpatty Beach.
A boy pulls in his fishing boat as crowds enjoy chowpatty beach in Mumbai, India, with the massive gleaming Saifee hospital in the background.
A fishing boy on Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, India. They work on boats and also reel in nets by hand by walking out into the water (Arabian Sea).
Garbage piles up in Mahim Bay, Mumbai, India. Mumbai's landfills are projected to fill up soon, with the massive Deonar dump, the largest in India, already holding 10 million tons.
Garbage piles up in Mahim Bay, Mumbai, India. Mumbai's landfills are projected to fill up soon, with the massive Deonar dump, the largest in India, already holding 10 million tons.
Garbage piles up near fishing boats in Mahim Bay, Mumbai, India. Mumbai's landfills are projected to fill up soon, with the massive Deonar dump, the largest in India, already holding 10 million tons.
Garbage piles up near fishing boats in Mahim Bay, Mumbai, India. Mumbai's landfills are projected to fill up soon, with the massive Deonar dump, the largest in India, already holding 10 million tons.
