$600m Mumbai Redevelopment Will See Thousands Get New Homes For Free

Farida Kachwala is vacating her family’s cramped home of eighty years, one of thousands receiving modern apartments through a project that hopes to transform Mumbai’s historic Bhendi Bazaar from a dilapidated ghetto into a slick Singapore-like enclave. Six hundred million dollars is being spent to demolish hundreds of rundown low-rise buildings in the dirty colonial-era … Read more

Religion, Free Homes Spur Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar Revamp

Farida Kachwala is vacating her family’s cramped home of eighty years, one of thousands receiving modern apartments through a project that hopes to transform Mumbai’s historic Bhendi Bazaar from a dilapidated ghetto into a slick Singapore-like enclave. Six hundred million dollars is being spent to demolish hundreds of rundown low-rise buildings in the dirty colonial-era … Read more