tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post7942476945719370429..comments2024-03-22T13:12:39.527+05:30Comments on Mumbai Magic: The Ethics of Slum ToursDeepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08076685280358127119noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-82454248718738619192016-09-24T19:19:58.155+05:302016-09-24T19:19:58.155+05:30What trash. You put flowery words around poverty p...What trash. You put flowery words around poverty porn. You should be ashamed. If you really care about the poor, you would not call this experience "Slum tour". This is shades of Donald Trump.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-59995414015609793392014-03-15T02:47:10.445+05:302014-03-15T02:47:10.445+05:30i feel its a pretty bold move that you started thi...i feel its a pretty bold move that you started this voyeurism and this is a great motivation for people who actually areseeking for answers how to increase employment and actually catching interests of investors to bring forward the appreciation and better results out of the talent here.. i salute you guys for this ideaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-77902312791100807852012-02-01T11:13:56.245+05:302012-02-01T11:13:56.245+05:30Wondrous and beautiful. I love the post content. T...Wondrous and beautiful. I love the post content. Thanks for that great stuff!hotel louisvillehttp://www.louisville-hotels-kentucky.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-61627022020669409952011-01-31T22:23:00.515+05:302011-01-31T22:23:00.515+05:30Bonjour,
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This is a great write-up nevertheless, did not mess that up.<br /><br />- DavidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-75659226866665748062010-07-15T16:51:08.842+05:302010-07-15T16:51:08.842+05:30A great constructive article will help to understa...A great constructive article will help to understand the issue.Term papershttp://www.ghostpapers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-85997917965889572732008-02-04T06:12:00.000+05:302008-02-04T06:12:00.000+05:30beautiful article! I loved it.beautiful article! I loved it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-40621669550429214212007-12-16T17:44:00.000+05:302007-12-16T17:44:00.000+05:30Last year this time around, my daughter's American...Last year this time around, my daughter's American friend was visiting India(they are married now) we took him to Agra-Jaipur-Delhi.He was fasinated with real India, the way people were working on the road-side each according to his/her capability and try to make their life better.Small kids impressed him the best with their expertise to sell things, the way they changed selling tactics, I still remember him saying these kids with proper means can beat any NEWYORKER in sales management. Well I felt proud, proud to be part of a country which believes in hard-working and progressing, well maynot be all but majority does!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-25371262694601253392007-10-10T07:31:00.000+05:302007-10-10T07:31:00.000+05:30Have spent 7 days in Dharavi - Walked the length a...Have spent 7 days in Dharavi - Walked the length and breadth but it was still not over.<BR/>My then boyfriend who studied in the cocoons of IIT and an outsider told me that he wanted to see the real bombay. I took him to see Dharavi. This was in 1996.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-30979973213165813932007-10-06T16:50:00.000+05:302007-10-06T16:50:00.000+05:30Nice riposte. I was a clueless foreigner (American...Nice riposte. I was a clueless foreigner (American) on a Dharavi tour once, and I thought a lot about this issue. <BR/><BR/>SnorkedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-72838106137448382632007-10-05T11:14:00.000+05:302007-10-05T11:14:00.000+05:30Just like the journalist who interviewed you , we ...Just like the journalist who interviewed you , we are all doing something for the money it brings in. However, if it was for the money alone, you would probably have gone there once, taken the right photographs, and published them in the popular magazines. For someone to keep making repeated trips to places like Dharavi is I am sure not a very easy task. And we have no doubts about your motive. If atleast one person can bring about some change in thinking and the perspective of any individual - like you are trying to - it should be encouraged. And if you are making some money from the tours, there is nothing wrong in it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-28863239446512707592007-09-30T22:37:00.000+05:302007-09-30T22:37:00.000+05:30Deepa,Thank you for this wonderful post. I have wr...Deepa,<BR/>Thank you for this wonderful post. I have written about the "two Indias" that you refer to - and you are right, if a visitor sees a third India, the one of the industrious working poor with dreams, there is only that much more to learn. And, in my opinion, it goes a LONG WAY toward bridging the divide between the haves and the have-nots.<BR/><BR/>You are also right in that there is no escaping the "voyeurism" of the poor in Mumbai. In fact, there's no escaping it anywhere in India - there's no escaping it in my hometown of Austin, Texas either! We have homeless that sleep on our sidewalks, who occasionally accost passersby, who stand at our street corners and beg from passing autos. <BR/><BR/>It constantly amazes me how many people walk right by without even looking. What you are doing is trying to say, "Look closer, beyond the surface, beyond the stereotypes. These are real people with real lives."<BR/><BR/>Dhamini is right that it can lend itself to stereotyping. But as she also says, and as I said to her in my response to her interview request, it is usually a different sort of traveler who goes on these tours - not the type who wants to buy a luxury package tour to be shielded from anything that's too "real." The type of tourist will have a lot to do with it - and if done right, the way Deepa does, I believe this will actually shatter those stereotypes.<BR/><BR/>Dhamani, thank you for such a well done article. I enjoyed it very much; and thank you for focusing on this topic!<BR/>Shelley Seale<BR/>http://weightofsilence.wordpress.comShelley Sealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08507688830923905901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34858118.post-82412252797733299822007-09-30T16:57:00.000+05:302007-09-30T16:57:00.000+05:30I knew you'd blog about it... was watching this sp...I knew you'd blog about it... was watching this space!! Found your blog interesting. the charge of voyeurism is never an easy one to escape... and depends, as we had discussed, on the way things are shown. One thing that further struck me was that the type of viewer is equally important: the motives of he who sees are as much to be understood as he/she who shows.<BR/>Seeing poverty on the streets, at the intersections, along footpaths differs in only one major respect from the tours, in that they are not being shown: they are being seen. The nuance is subtle... i wish i could italicise the words for effect (democratise the melodrama effect!), but all important.<BR/>And finally, having gone on a tour myself, I understand the enterprise you are keen to showcase. I saw it myself...and was pretty blown away. However, the only problem I have with this is the politics of showcasing: how easily it lends itself to stereotyping. And while Shelley does rightly talk about the shattering of stereotypes, we must also be wary of creating new ones in their place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com