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With the nomination of Slumdog Millionaire for an Academy Award, it's easy to view Mumbai's slums as wastelands of filth and misery. But they're actually vibrant business centers filled with scrappy entrepreneurs. If some wealthy developers get their way, though, the slums' days may be numbered.

Learn all about it in this week's FP photo essay, "India's Real-World Slumdogs."

And while you're at it, you might enjoy these previous FP photo essays:

Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
 
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