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Time for intolerence: Mumbai residents must stop being so apathetic about their city’s neglect
For ordinary Mumbaikars, just walking in their neighbourhoods or commuting to work is a terrible ordeal.
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HDFC spikes: Mumbai’s tony Pali Hill also uses hostile design to deter workers, hawkers from sitting
Metal barbs outside the bank’s Fort branch to keep away homeless people weren’t an exception. India’s elite use many strategies to fend off the marginalised.
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Sadism on the tracks: In Mumbai, commuters are treated as statistics, not humans
On the city’s train system, customers are like cattle, whose movements are sought to be confined and controlled.
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