Residential towers overlook garbage mounds at the Mulund landfill in suburban Mumbai. (Photo: BloombergQuint)
KC Hariharan lives in one of Mumbai’s oldest planned localities: Mulund. The property boom in the last decade and a half transformed the northern suburb into an economic hub. It’s an important junction in the suburban train network, and will soon be linked with metro rail. But Hariharan’s family has spent nearly 14 years amid an inescapable stench.The city’s third-biggest garbage dump is barely a kilometre away from the family’s apar...