Drying Poppadoms (popadum, popodum, poppudom, popadom, popodom, papad)The food of many spellings a popadom is a large round, thin crisp flatbread made of seasoned dough normally from black gram or urad flour that is deep fried in hot oil. There are many local varieties of flour used however, so they can be made from rice flour and potatoes as well as chickpeas. Dharavi is a residential and industrial area in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It has often been considered to be one of the world's largest slums. Dharavi has an area of just over 2.39 square kilometres (0.92 sq mi 590 acres) and a population of about 1,000,000. With a population density of over 277,136 km2 (717,780 sq mi), Dharavi is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
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