Local residents are more cautious, too, and the slum's narrow streets are cleaner. "After the first COVID-19 death in Dharavi last year, there was panic among people.

Normally, Khwaja Qureshi’s recycling facility in Dharavi, the slum in Mumbai, would be no place for three newborn tabby kittens. Before efforts to contain the novel coronavirus idled much of the ...

@ NickKristof • Facebook A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 12, 2023, Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: This Slum Has Something to Teach the World.