India is one of the few countries in the world that has a great number of gigantic sized slums and these days many of them are drawing interest of the western tourist crowd as some of the best places for slum tourism in India. Here we would introduce some of the best places for poverty and slum tourism in India.
Dharavi in Mumbai
Though whether it is the biggest in Asia or consequently in India leaving behind the Pilkhana in Kolkata is really a controversial issue but the Dharavi as a slum area is the place that boasts of highest level of variety of living hood and living atmosphere in India and Asia. This one of the largest slums in the enire continent is spread along the MahimRiver in Central Mumbai with a stretch of 1.75km. Dharavi being in the heart of the biggest and busiest city of India is considered as one of the best places for slum tourism in India.
KusumpurPahari in Delhi
The slum in Kusumpur Pahari is arguably the largest slum in Delhi with a more than 15000 living accommodations and a great variety of living standard and premises. This major slum area in South Delhi is one of the places that recently become a tourist attraction to the western tourists who feel attracted to the dimensions of the poverty stricken survival of slum dwellers and this new popularity as a tourist destination made this slum as one of the best places for slum tourism in India.
Tiljala in Kolkata
Tiljala in the eastern fringe of the Kolkata city is considered to be the largest and most diverse kind of slum area in Kolkata with a surrounding posh upper middle class and also a section of lower middle class population and this slum area compared to many other slum areas scattered in various Indian cities boasts of a comparatively better lifestyle and living standard, though the variance of poverty along with dimensions of development is present all through the area that makes this one of the places for slum tourism in India. With superfast eastern metropolitan bypass and lagoons of fisheries in the far eastern part of the city nearby this slum area is really worth a look for the tourists coming from different part of the world.
Borabanda in Hyderabad
Though the city of Hyderabad has come up in the map of India as a newly rejuvenated tourist destination and a preferred destination for technological boom and industrial development, the rocky terrain of Borabanda in Hyderabad remained as one of the most underdeveloped slum areas in the city which is the home of the biggest slum area of Hyderabad with a slum living population of more than five thousand and nearby access to the posh south suburban areas in the southern part of the city. The slum area with multiple ethnicity and different types of struggles of development is considered to be one of the places that can attract tourists from other part of the world who has an interest in the living hood of slum dwellers.
Parvati Slum in Pune
Though this slum is not that much big in size and encompass, the Parvati slum in Pune is typical of its two level constructions around the hillside in Pune and possess one of the very varied population from different parts of Maharashtra and India. In regard to its typical size and incoherent demographic characteristic this slum can really be one of the best places for slum tourism in India.
The best places for slum tourism in India as mentioned here could not include all the varieties of slums in India but at least could produce an idea of the slum living hood that can be attractive tourist spots for people who have a special interest in the life and living hood of the poor and downtrodden.
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