slum
झोपडपट्टी
definition
verb
rich tourists slumming among the quaintly dangerous natives
spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes.
noun
However, there is still a large segment of the population which lives in urban slums and poor rural areas without electricity or running water.
a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.
translation of 'slum'
खूप माणसे राहत असलेले घर,
घाणरेडे,
गलिच्छ वस्तीतील लोकांच्या मदतीसाठी त्या वस्तीला भेट देणे,
गावातील गलिच्छ वस्तीतील एक रस्ता,
गलिच्छ वस्तीत जीवन कंठणे
example
But ironically the former 'slum' houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents.
'slum' areas
'slum' dwellers
Its control of poor 'slum' areas and inner cities resulted from the chaos that was brought about by the occupation; it was not itself the cause of the chaos.
The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and 'slum' districts.
businessmen are having to 'slum' it in aircraft economy class seats
As you can see, the Red Party has a lot of natural support in inner city 'slum' areas like this.
As part of the activities of the trust we have started free classes for girl students from local government schools from a nearby 'slum' who come from poor families.
businessmen are having to 'slum' it in aircraft economy class seats
Begun in April 2003, it is a non-profit organisation with a mission to unleash the potential of the 'slum' , street and orphaned children of urban India.
he moved from a two-room 'slum' into a local authority house
the area was fast becoming a 'slum' for the destitute
There is also a primary school at the premises run by the committee for the poor and 'slum' dwellers in the locality.
It is like an inner-city 'slum' and the street cleaning leaves a lot to be desired.
She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a 'slum' known as the Walled City.
Blunkett's conclusion was that ‘if you live in a 'slum' in a high-rise building and you are on your own with three children, the idea of liberty and freedom means nothing’.
I think that we will live here for maybe 12 months and then move elsewhere leaving the house as a 'slum' and make a start again a little further down the road.
It made my dorm building look like a 'slum' , that was for sure.
The best home the family of seven can afford is this wood shack in a 'slum' .
Critics say he is just a posh boy who enjoys 'slumming it' .
Imagine - word gets out that the heir to the Stuckley fortune was hitting from the other side of the plate, 'slumming' with friends of Judy, eating her caviar hot, on a dirty plate.
Vanessa ran in circles far more elevated than ours and she was always telling us that when she hung out with us she was 'slumming' .
The Trust introduced on April 1 a mobile dispensary which will make rounds of 'slums' and localities inhabited by poor sections of society to provide free medical treatment.
When I went 'slumming' like this, I wanted to cruise the bad slums.
Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes 'slumming' in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia.
As well as this lack of opportunity, there seems to be so much violence in the ghettos, in the 'slums' , the project areas, where most of the immigrants have to live.
Played out against a backdrop of the infamous club, their romance develops as we meet the high life and the low life, 'slumming' aristocrats and the fashionably rich, mingling with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
Do wealthy Americans simply feel it's more acceptable to go 'slumming' out of sight at the website rather than inside the store?
This magazine isn't for the New Yorker, it's for the 'slummer' .
But these young people are choosing to live in the world's most destitute urban 'slums' , among the poorest of the poor.
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