What to Do? Covid news from the source.
The slum community abuts a middle-class apartment building in Mumbai Who could miss the daily, hourly, up-to-the minute news, coming from...
Collective Spirit and some Angst
Two girls visiting in front of their homes along the pipeline area of the community. Her daily text and voice messages arrive either in...
Standing By: managing the issues of the pandemic from afar
It’s well past midnight in Victoria when I hear the unmistakable sound of a WhatsApp message. We’ve come to anticipate this sound late at...
Circling Back: Mumbai's Migrant Workers Return
These men deliver goods contained in the baskets atop their heads all day long to and from businesses in south Mumbai. We walked by the...
The Watermelon Stand and Other Stories (the struggle is real)
Janvi and her friends hanging out pre-pandemic. DWP photo taken January 2020. The lockdown for the poor in India begs to differ the...
Viral Pandemonium
Irshad, in happier times, demonstrating how we all feel about the virus. On a good day in the community, there are dozens of sniffling,...
Picnic Partners
If we had to pick our favourite thing to do with the children in the community that's much more enjoyable than a day spent at a doctor's...
Small Spaces - Big Results
Student project depicting a volcanic eruption and the aftermath of an earthquake. It was already too hot and very humid when we arrived a...
The Foreigners Live in our Building
Our friendly neighbourhood where we have rented a one-room flat. It doesn’t take us long to settle in to the thrum of this city. It helps...
It's been 10 years
Mumbai, the most populous city in India, is squeezed into a peninsula on the edge of the Arabian Sea. It’s a hot, muggy, cosmopolitan...