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Figure 8-17
Raw material and manufacturing
regions. Note the role of former
colonial cities as centers of activity .
The Golden Quadrilateral highway
connects these with hundreds of
other places.
From H. J. de Blij and
P . O. Muller,
Geography: Realms, Regions
and Concept
s, 14th edition, 2010, p. 443.
(Modified by B. A. Weightman).Origi-
nally rendered in color. Reprinted with
permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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After showing in India, Bollywood films are ex-
ported to other parts of Asia and to Africa and the Middle
East where they are very popular. Interestingly , only one
in five films turns a profit. Audiences are frequently poor
and pay only 25 cents to see one. Obviously , large audi-
ences are requisite for profitability . The entire industry
generates US$1.3 billion a year.
Financing is difficult and comes with exorbitant in-
terest rates—24 to 36 percent. Mafia-type organizations
have stepped in to fill the financial void. These organiza-
tions extort protection money from producers, directors,
and stars. Like Mumbai' s construction industry , its film
industry is riddled with organized crime. Nevertheless,
Bollywood' s studios and stars add to the city' s magnetism
and bolster its ranking among the world' s great cities.
In 2004, Prime Minister Singh said that Mumbai
should become another Shanghai by 2010. A report—
Vision Bombay
—provides a strategic framework for im-
provements in such areas as housing, education, and in-
frastructure. In 2006, the government demolished some
90,000 “makeshift” homes on prime economic land des-
ignated for modern development. The government
stopped the demolition only when it realized that poor
people vote! Three out of every five residents live in slum
housing, yet thousands pour into the city every day .
The goal of becoming another Shanghai appeared
quite ridiculous with the collapse of Mumbai' s infra-
structure in 2005 when 37 inches (94 cm) of rain fell in
24 hours. People walked home in chest-high water float-
ing with waste. Some disappeared in bottomless potholes
or sewers. At least 500 people died and countless homes
were destroyed.
The civic administration fell apart again within a year
when several coordinated bomb blasts destroyed seven
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