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Essay – Mumbai, Maximum City:Modernity and Inequalities in Emerging

India [CA v1.0] Use the following documents to write an essay (of 1 or 2 pages) about Mumbai,Maximum City: Modernity and Inequalities in Emerging India. To help you, somesuitable topics:

• Mumbai, Gateway of India

• Tradition and Modernity in Mumbai

• Inequalities in Mumbai

• Mumbai and Globalization

Illustration 1: Map of India (src)

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Illustration 2: Map of Mumbai, 2010 (src)

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Expats plan your move to Mumbai (Relocation guide), 2013 [3 min. 45]

Illustration 3: Mumbai University cricket fields,2010 (src)

Illustration 4: Dharavi s lum in Mumbai (src)

"The Mumbai shanty town featured in the film Slumdog Millionaire offers a bettermodel than does western architecture for ways to house a booming urban populationin the developing world, Prince [of Wales] Charles said yesterday. Dharavi, a Mumbais lum where 600,000 residents are crammed into 520 acres, contains the attributes forenvironmentally and socially sustainable settlements for the world's increasingly urbanpopulation, he said. The district's use of local materials, its walkable neighbourhoods,and mix of employment and housing add up to "an underlying intuitive grammar of

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design that is totally absent from the faceless slab blocks that are still being builtaround the world to 'warehouse' the poor". […] He shared a platform with JockinArputham, founder of the National Slum Dwellers Federation of India, who attackedattempts by foreign investors to clear large parts of Dharavi and replace them with23-storey apartments".

Booth, Robert, "Charles declares Mumbai shanty town model for the world", TheGuardian, Friday 6 February 2009 (src)

Illustration 5: The Imperial towers (240 meters),central Mumbai, 2010 (src)

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Illustration 6: Mukesh Ambani's [22nd richest person in the world] $1 Billion AntiliaHouse (src)

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"Mumbai, India's entertainment capital and home to Bollywood, is one of the mostprolific centers of film production in the world. […] Bollywood is not a name for theIndian filmmaking industry; it is a name for the country's Hindi film industry […] TheIndian film industry is the biggest in the world, with the American counterpart placingthird — behind Nollywood, Nigeria's equivalent. According to India's censor board,more than 1600 films were produced in the country in 2012. Even in India, Bollywoodis not the biggest industry in terms of output. Last year, more films were produced inTamil (262) and Telugu (256) than in Hindi (221). Nevertheless, when it comes toglobal presence, box-office sales and far-reaching influence, Bollywood's mightexceeds that of India's other film industries […] Along with being India's mostpopulous city, Mumbai is also its wealthiest. The city is the hotbed of so many sectorsin India that it simultaneously serves as the setting for various stories that wouldentail different locations in, say, the U.S. The city hosts India's stock market [BombayStock Exchange and National Stock Exchange] and its entertainment industry; it's alsoa haven for the mafia […] the city is a true melting pot of cultures and languages. […]This prevalence of multiple societies adds to the storytelling potential of the city: Astory about almost every community can be told with a Mumbai setting. […] Today,every major American studio -- from Walt Disney to 20th Century Fox -- has a presencein India, either by itself or via partnership. This has been a two-way exchange: theMumbai-based Reliance group is now the parent company of Steven Spielberg'sDreamWorks".

Maheshwari, Laya, "Why Is Bollywood Such a Powerful Industry? Mumbai Provides AnAnswer", October 29th, 2013 <http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-is-bollywood-such-a-powerful-industry?page=1>

Illustration 7: Mumbai SEZ (src) [Rs = indianrupees ; crore = 10,000,000; lakh = 100,000]