No exhaustive explanation is needed on how Mumbai loves slums. People want cheap labour for household chores or commercial units; it comes from slums. The political class wants votes, and slums are an assured vote-bank, because a larger section of society that comes from the upper middle-class and middle-class, doesn’t vote.

A small section of the society abhors slums, and because their heart goes towards the ‘betterment’ and a clean-up of Mumbai - once known as a disciplined, beautiful business hub on the west coast of India, whose foundations to sustain burgeoning growth were laid by British.