Badshah Mall - Big dreams in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum

Hayad Ansari, a small-time Mumbai builder, has spent every evening of late watching his team of painters and decorators putting whitewash on his new Badshah Mall.

Each of its four storeys has been adorned with bright orange and yellow cladding and wide glass windows – just like any other of the hundreds of malls found along Mumbai’s shopping streets.

But in one way Badshah Mall is different – it is right in the middle of Dharavi, Mumbai’s most notorious slum.

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