Photographs: Mumbai's Slums

As Mumbai, India's bustling financial capital, sets its aspirations of becoming a world-class financial centre by 2015, its shadow of sprawling slums will inevitably be torn down to make way for new infrastructure.

Occupying some of the most valuable real estate in the world, and producing billions of dollars in exports each year, Mumbai's productive but overcrowded slums house approximately half of its 14-18 million people.

While many of Mumbai's slum dwellers remain nervous about their future, Mumbai's success at a redevelopment and transformation that is inclusive of it's poor could very well be the test for the success of a 'New India'.