Across India’s bustling cities, a crisis of staggering proportions is unfolding, largely unseen and uncared for by those who don’t wish to notice. As India strides towards modernisation and globalisation, it is leaving behind millions of people living in slums for whom the promise of development has no meaning. The rapid growth of slums across India’s cities represents not just an urban planning challenge but a humanitarian crisis thwarting the nation’s social and economic progress.