Asia's largest slum, Dharavi in Bombay, to be demolished...

Mukesh Mehta wears a crisp shirt and tie as he picks his way past makeshift shacks and stinking open gutters in Dharavi, Asia's largest slum. 

Dharavi is a dense labyrinth of dirt roads in the centre of India's biggest and most economically important city, Mumbai (Bombay). 

Estimates of its population size vary but it is likely that up to a million people live in these crowded lanes. 

But now the slum faces complete demolition under an audacious plan designed by Mr Mehta. More...

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