60 percent of Mumbaikars too live in slums !! And in slums of the most repulsive kind that can be imagined !!! And Mumbai has managed this without any help from the communists and despite having always been hyped as India's commercial capital and being described - a la New York - as the Indian city with streets paved of gold !!!!
One has to agree tongue in cheek with that last bit - more than any other city in India and more than most other cities in the world, Mumbai's streets are indeed paved with that golden colour (and refreshed every morning with about 3 to 4 million of India's poor releiving themselves) !!! Not for nothing was Mumbai described the 7th dirtiest city in the world recently in a survey.
