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...then I visited Mumbai, India over Spring Break, and my previously myopic opinion on this issue evolved dramatically. The number of recent murders in the hub is unconscionable, and a drastic new approach must be taken to thwart future killings...
With over 18 million inhabitants, Mumbai has a population density four times that of New York City, and fully half of these inhabitants are homeless. Millions live in fetid, decaying slum metropolises without running water or electricity. Only rudimentary cinderblock and aluminum sheet dwellings protect these impoverished masses from monsoon rainfalls and a sweltering...
Mumbai’s mixture of extreme poverty and a lack of law enforcement should dictate this. Yet as of March 31, only 133 murders had been registered in all of Mumbai since New Years. This means that there has been one murder for roughly every 136,000 people this year, whereas Boston has had 16 murders in a city of under 600,000–roughly one murder for every 37,000 people. As hard as it is believe, you are over 3.5 times more likely to be murdered in the streets of Boston than in the slums...
...same room as the larger exhibit. In the exhibition’s defense, it certainly is an interesting juxtaposition to see such modern photographs alongside art dating back to the 9th century. Ketaki Sheth’s dramatic 2004 gelatin silver print, “No Parking, Bhuleshwar, Bombay (Mumbai),” opens the collection. The accompanying text says that Sheth confronts the exoticism that is oft the subject of Indian photography through this deliberately “unpicturesque” shot. A black-and-white photograph capturing a street scene from a handheld camera, the image immediately places...
...results and that a bookie is probably behind Woolmer's murder. "Where there is gambling, there is money," he says, "and where there is money, there is murder." Using cell-phone numbers that they discard daily, and a series of codes when speaking to avoid police detection, bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian Sea in Dubai pull in hundreds of millions of dollars on scheduled series of big matches, and might have been keen to shut Woolmer up if he threatened their gold mine...