Aarohi Damle is a researcher and Project Manager at the Labour Education and Research Network (LEARN) and has previously been engaged in research projects at Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action and India Migration Now.
Dharavi gives us a wake up call that social distancing is physically impossible on 250-odd hectares of land with a population of approximately 8,50,000 residents and where 10 or more people often stay in housing units measuring 250 sq. ft.