Mumbai: The irony is hard to miss. New Life is located above a slaughterhouse. English Dreams is wrongly spelt as InglishDreemz. But these slumtorials, today the mainstay in Mumbai’s bustees, are catering to thousands chasing a transformation that will pull them out of their jhopris.
Largely located above a tailor shop or a butchery, a hotel or a clothes store where rent is low, tutorials in slums are mostly single classroom entities with walls plastered with tiles similar to those in public urinals. Then there are the more ambitious kinds; the ones that charge a bit more because, a few seasons ago, a student or two had bagged distinction. They divide their room into two using a curtain and set aside a few benches for the “super” batches or students who are likely to “create history” again.
