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Life in a chawl
February 6, 2011 | Seema Sinha , TNN
Chawls have been themes for films and have inspired several creative people.Seema Sinha
journeys into the psyche of community living Remember Basu Chatterjees Jaya Bhaduri-Anil
Dhawanstarrer Piya Ka Ghar (1972) in which the marriage-fixing priest creates a dreamscape in
the imagination of young Malathy and her parents about the Mumbai chawl He tells them: The
boy lives near the seashore,in a five-storey building;as kings and emperors have palaces,the
people in Mumbai,the city of dreams,have...
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MUMBAI

Govt to hand over 100-yr-old residential colony to private

developer
October 22, 2013 | Nauzer Bharucha , TNN
MUMBAI: The 100-year-old residential Dattatray chawl in south Mumbai suddenly finds itself
in the limelight after the state government decided to hand over the property to a private
developer. What is intriguing is that the under two-acre land which houses over 1,500 residents
was acquired by the state housing authority two decades ago. However, two months ago, a state
housing department official wrote a letter to the housing authority, Mhada, to exempt the...
INDIA

Tilak's chawl sold to developer

October 8, 2007 | Archana Sharma , TNN
MUMBAI: The city's march towards redevelopment is set to bring another landmark down. The
historic Keshavji Naik chawl in Girgaon, where Lokmanya Tilak started the first 'sarvajanik'
Ganeshotsav in 1893 to mobilise opinion and rally support for India's independence struggle, has
been sold to a developer. The cluster of seven ground-plus one structures on Khadilkar Road,
Keshavji Naik chawl are more than 125-years-old - last month, the chawl's landlord, Haji Ismail
Haji Habib Charity Trust, sold...
MUMBAI

Woman found dead in chawl

September 15, 2009 | TNN
MUMBAI: The body of a 24-year-old woman was found in a chawl at Shastri Nagar in
Ghatkopar on Monday. The body of the deceased, identified as Zarina, was found in a
decomposed state. Neighbours informed the Pant Nagar police after noticing a foul odour. Cops
broke the door and found the body. "It is too early to know whether the woman was killed or it
was a natural death. The matter will be cleared only after the post-mortem," said inspector M R
Awad. DCP (Zone VII) R M Vhatkar...
THANE

Cracked building to be demolished, families of nearby

chawls shifted too
October 15, 2013 | Nishikant Karlikar , TNN
THANE: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has decided to demolish Suryadarshan
building at Nitin junction that has developed cracks. However, TMC is yet to decide when. As
many as 84 families from Suryadarshan and Tejadeep buildings have been moved to rental
houses belonging to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for
the time being. Around 450 residents are now living on fifth, seventh and eighth floors in rooms
measuring 160 sq m....
MUMBAI

Navaratra mandals balance celebrations with charity

October 8, 2013 | Bella Jaisinghani , TNN
MUMBAI: The residents of Maganlal Dayabhai chawl in Dadar are not men of means. Yet, they
host a lavish 'Daridranarayan' feast for 400 underprivileged people including local hawkers as
part of Navratra celebrations each year. They wash the feet of their guests and serve them a
multi-course meal prepared with fine ingredients. Navratra mandals that install idols of the
Mother Goddess conduct charity and entertainment programmes as their resources allow. At...

MUMBAI

Chawl women battle brothel menace

September 20, 2003 | Roli Srivastava , TNN
MUMBAI: Strike one up for woman power. Fed up with the incessant eve-teasing and pimping
around their premises, the female folk of Husseini Chamber, a 33-room chawl in Parel, took to
the streets on Wednesday night. They alleged that Pathik lodge on the ground floor of their
building was being used for prostitution. What resulted was a heated six-hour battle with the
owner of the chawl which ended well past midnight. The women's case was strengthened when
they were joined by local...
MUMBAI

10 hurt in chawl wall collapse

June 29, 2011 | TNN
MUMBAI: A portion of a wall of a chawl in a Jogeshwari slum collapsed and injured 10 people.
The portion, said civic officials, was an illegal extension of the building. The incident occurred
on Tuesday afternoon at Shaheed road, Pascal colony, Jogeshwari (E). According to officials, the
work on an illegal extension of the chawl was in progress. "While this work was being carried
out, a portion fell on the masons working there. They were taken to a dispensary close...
NASHIK

Two rooms of chawl gutted in fire

January 30, 2013 | Santosh Sonawane , TNN
NASHIK : Two rooms of a chawl in Hanumanwadi area of Panchavati were gutted in a fire that
broke out on Tuesday afternoon. No casualty was reported as the family members in both the
rooms of the chawl got out in time. However, all the articles in both the rooms were completely
destroyed, according to fire brigade personnel. The fire broke out at noon in the ground floor of
the one-storey chawl of Dinkar Ingle, near Khandoba Temple on Makhmalabad Road. Since the
dwelling is...
MUMBAI

These youngsters turned firemen to save chawl

November 28, 2011 | Sukhada Tatke , TNN
MUMBAI: The extent of the fire that destroyed the Sara-Sahara complex and parts of Manish
Market would have been much greater had it not been for the presence of mind of some
youngsters. While the fire brigade was busy trying to put out the raging fire at the Sara-Sahara
complex, the flames quickly spread to the neighbouring Al Quadri chawl. Residents claimed that
fire officials were unwilling to climb to the top of the chawl to douse the fire and this...
AHMEDABAD

Model mayor of Ahmedabad lives in chawl

March 18, 2009 | Kumar Manish , TNN
Ahmedabad : He could have lived at one of the city's most enviable addresses, in a palatial
bungalow with an army of servants. Yet, he chooses to stay in a single-room chawl in
Thakorevas of Madhavpura area and takes AMTS bus to work. His designation: Mayor of mega
city Ahmedabad. Kanaji Thakore, 60, is from the diminishing tribe of politicians who are not
lured by the perks of their jobs. He prefers to live with his family and neighbours. House no.
1282...
MUMBAI

Cops suffer fractures while trying to nab robbers

September 19, 2013 | Narayan Namboodiri , TNN
MUMBAI: Two police officers are recuperating their injuries when they crashed down from 15
feet height of a chawl at Upper Tunga Village in Powai on September 7. The two Powai sub-
inspectors — Sachin Gawate (38) and Sushilkumar Bhosale (28) — had gone to nab the two
robbers who has committed when they met with the incident around 1pm. The two accused were
caught by the injured cops after an hourlong chase in the narrow bylanes and on roofs of
congested chawls at Upper Tunga Village...
MUMBAI

Tardeo chawl redevpt plan gets HC nod

June 12, 2013 | Shibu Thomas , TNN
MUMBAI: A redevelopment project in Tardeo got the nod from the Bombay HC after it quashed
a BMC notice to the developer to stop work. Gora Gandhi chawl on Bellasis Road comprised old
structures with around 168 tenements. The property was acquired by the BMC as part of a slum
clearance scheme. In 2000, the civic body approved a proposal appointing Crescent Property
Developers to rebuild the chawls. According to the plan, the existing residents were to be
rehabilitated in three...
MUMBAI

Driver murdered at Govandi by four

June 4, 2013 | Nitasha Natu , TNN
MUMBAI: A 47-year-old driver was murdered by four men on Friday over a dispute. The
deceased, Mohammad Ali Shaikh, had forbidden the accused from drinking in front of his house.
The incident took place at 3.15pm at a chawl in Bainganwadi, Govandi. After Shaikh asked them
to move away from his neighbourhood, the accused started to hurl abuses at him. The two parties
had an altercation. Later the accused returned and forcibly took Shaikh to another chawl where
they stabbed him in his...
MUMBAI

Snake caught from home in Goregaon

April 28, 2013 | TNN
A three-foot-long snake that had caused panic in a Goregaon housing colony was captured on
Saturday. slithering across their housing colony at Goregaon West sparked panic amongst local
residents early on Saturday. The snake was eventually captured by an officer from Malad police
station who has been rescuing the reptiles for nearly three decades now. The snake was spotted
by residents of incident was reported at Motilal Nagar chawl around 2.30am. The reptile
reportedly slid into...
MUMBAI

Jeweller brothers strangled in Nalasopara chawl room

April 9, 2013 | Sandhya Nair , TNN
MUMBAI: Two jeweller brothers were strangled in their chawl room in Moregaon, Nalasopara
(E), by unidentified persons in the wee hours of Monday. The bodies of Madan (47) and Dinesh
Soni (27) were found in their room in Sahil Nagar. The police said they were strangled with
nylon ropes and their legs were found tied. The brothers had a small shop, Danish Jewellers,
behind their residence and would keep their valuables and cash in their room. The police said
they were trying...

MUMBAI

Mazgaon chawl redevelopment to finally start?

November 26, 2012 | Shibu Thomas , TNN
MUMBAI: A mega cluster project in Mazgaon to redevelop one of Mumbai's most dilapidated
building complex may finally take off with the Bombay high court giving a last chance to the
developers to deposit a premium of around Rs 4 crore if they want to commence the
redevelopment work. A division bench of Justices Dhananjay Chandrachud and Rajesh Ketkar
cited a 2010 interim order in the matter asking HIMS Botawala Charities and the developer to
deposit the premium within six weeks of it...
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MUMBAI

Five of a family killed as factory cylinder blast knocks down

wall
March 30, 2013 | V Narayan & Bhavika Jain , TNN
MUMBAI: Five of a family were killed and three others injured when a nitrogen cylinder
exploded at a dye casting unit in Sakinaka in the early hours of Friday. The police said the
explosion occurred around 1.30am, causing a 20-ft wall separating the unit ( Mahi Industries in
KK Compound) from a chawl to crumble. The debris buried six members of the Patel family
residing in the chawl , only one of whom survived. The other two injured were two workers...
MUMBAI

Woman gang-raped in front of male friend throughout night

March 15, 2013 | Vijay V Singh , TNN
MUMBAI: A 23-year-old woman was raped by four men through Wednesday night in the
presence of her male friend at his home in Vile Parle (E). Her torture continued for more than
five hours till her friend managed to hoodwink the accused and call up an acquaintance who led
the police to the spot and got the four arrested. The accused, Rajesh Varma (21), Ramchandra
Humbe (30), Krishna Kevat (31) and Mahesh Kewat (20), were produced in the Andheri...
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