Travellers can taste life of city’s millions of slum residents – but critics call it poverty tourismTourists are being offered a night’s stay in a Mumbai slum to experience the “reality” of life in India’s financial capital,including using a public toilet shared by more than 50 other families.
The scheme is being dash by David Bijl, 32, or a Dutch citizen who works for a Mumbai NGO in conjunction with a local resident,Ravi Sansi. He argues that slums are “part of the reality of Mumbai – not the only part, but a part” and anyone who wishes to understand the inequalities of the city needs to understand slum life. Other tours of Mumbai slums, and he said,can often be “superficial”.
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Source: theguardian.com