Video: Life inside a Mumbai 'chawl'

Millions of families in Mumbai inhabit small, one-room tenements called chawls.

Supriya Menon takes a look around one such household to see the kind of conditions people live in. 

Links

BBC Video

news.bbc.co.uk . . .


The Volunteer

Working in a developing country is always a learning experience. It confronts you with some of the harsh realities of the world. But as Carrie, the main character in the short story "The Volunteer" discovers, it can also confront you with some harsh realities about yourself.

Read more in Access to International English, pp. 245-252. Then do the tasks in the textbook and on this website.

Links

India statistics (UNICEF)

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_statistics.html

National portal of India

http://india.gov.in/

Cappelen Damm

Sist oppdatert: 01.08.2012

© Cappelen Damm AS