Outside the defense area at the southern tip of the island open spaces are few cramped living quarters, and the heat, drive people out into such public areas as exist, usually the streets so that to be in Bombay is always to be in a crowd. It is built on an island, and its development has been haphazard.
The older apartment blocks are full the new skyscrapers are full the small low huts of the squatters’ settlements on the airport road are packed tightly together. There is hardly room for the people already there.
They come mainly from the countryside and they have very little and in Bombay there isn’t room for them.
It is said that every day 1,500 more people, about 350 families, arrive in Bombay to live.
