Issue 290 / May 1997
The
city,
our stepmother
Editor's letter
'Story of a slum' by Jeremy Seabrook
The city, our stepmother
Guest editor Jeremy Seabrook journeys through Mumbai and introduces
us to the people of Sanjay Gandhi Nagar.
The fire, a death and the cooking pots
Despite constant evictions and hostile neighbours, the community is determined
to stay put.
Bare earth, fine hopes
A new site and a new government scheme seem full of promise.
City of dreams
Shravan Maishe has gone from peeling prawns to supervizing
a building site.
Home is where the heart is
Relative wealth leads to divisions between those who have grown richer and
those who have stayed poor.
Bombay to Mumbai - past, present and future
Friendship and fracture
Holding together means keeping out outsiders - sometimes violently.
A live volcano
Mumbai is a dangerous place to live...
Fake coke and broken coconuts
The cycle begins again as new migrants leave their villages to flock to the
city.
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Letters
Letter from Russia
Update
The NI Interview with
Robert Bropho
Reviews: plus Dale Spender
classic
Curiosities with
NI Crossword
Endpiece: by
Trevor Turner
Country profile: North Korea
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