Category Archives: SBUT

HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME – RESIDENTS SPEAK OF BHENDI BAZAAR’S EXPANSION

Sun Daily, Malaysia, 23rd April 2017 FARIDA Kachwala is vacating her family’s cramped home of eighty years, one of thousands receiving modern apartments through a project that hopes to transform Mumbai’s historic Bhendi Bazaar from a dilapidated ghetto into a slick Singapore-like enclave. Six hundred million dollars is being spent to demolish hundreds of rundown…

GOOD VIBES IN TEMPORARY HOME

23 January, 2018 Straits Times (Singapore) Mrs Marya Shabbir Jasdonwala stares out of the window of her house in southern Mumbai. “I had a dream that I would sit on my couch and look out of the window and see trees. I never thought it would come true,” said the 47-year-old, who runs a travel business. In 2010,…