The Gateway to Mumbai
Reference: Wikipedia
Mumbai, one of the largest city in India, also happens to be the capital city of the said country. It's is your typical metropolitan city with high technologies, skyscrapers as well as fashionable people thronging the incredible busy streets and heavy traffic.
Despite that, what makes the city stand out is the peppering of Indian traditional culture to the city; no where else in the world would you find a city with people wearing traditional saris, gorgeous temples and mosque in the mix with sky high office buildings etc.
Like any other metropolitan city (think New York), it has a darker side to the city as well. Mumbai house one of the largest slums in Asia, a village known as Dharavi. This reflects the gap between the capable and the poor which still plagues the Indian society.
Vocabulary:
Metropolitan - A large, highly developed, highly populated fast growing city.
Slum - Thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
Indigenous - Originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country/ native.
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