Look mama, a poor man!

I was browsing through a really high end travel guide in Bombay recently when something caught my eye. They were actually advertising a SLUM TOUR! by a company called Reality Tours no less.

Honestly I am not sure whether to be disgusted by it, or in some wierd way be thankful that people who are out of touch actually get a chance to see how most of the world actually lives. At one level this seems incredibly rude that Asia’s largest slum is treated like it was some kind of theme park, I feel it may make all the suffering they see a ‘Fantasy’ rather than harsh reality which needs to be fixed. On the other hand, perhaps it will jolt some people to evaluate the lives they lead and the principles that they live by.

I am inclined more towards the former, as I think if at all this is to have a positive impact it can’t be offered next to a tour of the best textile shops in India, somehow that just strikes me as being very wrong.