What does a cyclone leave in its wake? For residents of the Kurar Village slum in #Mumbai, it is battered homes, fallen trees, anger and fear.
#CycloneTauktae skirted Mumbai between May 16 and 17, becoming the first severe cyclone in 40 years to do so. Kurar Village, located on elevated land that makes it prone to #flooding, was left to weather the cyclone on its own, without any aid from local authorities. Despite being one of Mumbai’s biggest slum pockets, it remains severely neglected.
The cyclone tore apart their makeshift homes, brought down their roofs, left their houses flooded, and forced them to stay awake through the night until the rains stopped.
But such destruction and apathy comes as no surprise to the residents of the slum. The 13,000 families in the area’s Ambedkarnagar and Pimpripada have been waiting to be rehabilitated for more than two decades. Now, they are struggling to recover from the cyclone that wrecked their homes.
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