Most horrible places in the world

There are many wonderful places in the world. Fabulous sun beaches with miles of sands,wonderful mountains with crystal steams cascading down into tropical paradises.

In our big world, there are also some horrendous cities populated by a subculture of pollution, poverty or gangsters. Here I will share some of the most polluted and violent places.


Dharavi(India),

Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai.In the 18th, century Dharavi was an island.In February 1739, Chimnaji Appa attacked Bassein. Before that, he took possession of Dharavi.
The area of present-day Dharavi was predominantly mangrove swamp prior to the late 19th century, inhabited by Koli fishermen. However, the fishing industry disappeared when the swamp areas filled in. A dam at Sion, adjacent to Dharavi, hastened the process of joining separate islands into one long, tapered mass. Thus began the transformation of the island city of Bombay. In the process, the creek dried up, and Dharavi's fishing town was deprived of its traditional sustenance, but the newly drained marshes provided space for new communities to move in. Migrants from Gujarat established a potters' colony, and Maharashtrian tanners belonging to the Charmarkar caste migrated to Dharavi and set up the leather tanning industry. Other artisans, like the embroidery workers from Uttar Pradesh, started the ready-made garments trade.
Tamil migrants, including Tamil Muslims and Nadars started coming into the area in the late 1800s, many of whom worked in nearby tanneries, though a large influx came in the 1920s. Bombay's first Tamil school and Dharavi's first school was constructed in 1924, it remained the only school of Dharavi, for the next four decades.
In 1930s, a single road passed through the Dharavi towards Mahim railway station.

A bright side of is that it provides a cheap and affordable option to those who move to Mumbai to earn their living.


Rents here can be as low as 4 U.S. dollars per month.

"Mumbai's Shadow City"
Some call the Dharavi slum an embarassing eyesore in the middle of India's financial capital. Its residents call it home.
By Mark Jacobson
He said,
“Dharavi is routinely called "the largest slum in Asia," a dubious attribution sometimes conflated into "the largest slum in the world." This is not true. Mexico City's Neza-Chalco-Itza barrio has four times as many people. In Asia, Karachi's Orangi Township has surpassed Dharavi. Even in Mumbai, where about half of the city's swelling 12 million population lives in what is euphemistically referred to as "informal" housing, other slum pockets rival Dharavi in size and squalor.
Yet Dharavi remains unique among slums. A neighborhood smack in the heart of Mumbai, it retains the emotional and historical pull of a subcontinental Harlem—a square-mile (three square kilometers) center of all things, geographically, psychologically, spiritually. Its location has also made it hot real estate in Mumbai, a city that epitomizes India's hopes of becoming an economic rival to China. Indeed, on a planet where half of humanity will soon live in cities, the forces at work in Dharavi serve as a window not only on the future of India's burgeoning cities, but on urban space everywhere.
Published: May 2007 (NATIONAL GEOGRAHIC).


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