Meaning of Slumbai | Babel Free

Definitions

Derogatory name for Mumbai: a megacity, the capital of Maharashtra, India.

derogatory

Examples

“How Slumbai is being shanghaied?”

“[…] lose an opportunity to strike at the non-Maharashtrian population in “Slumbai”.”

“It was a city where the fabulously wealthy Ambani dynasty could build a twenty-seven-storey tower-block in the exclusive Malabar Hill as their own personal compound, while inequality and poverty still of Victorian levels flourished in coagulating ‘Slumbai’.”

“The irony is every single corporate head honcho who creates jobs in this city has not raised his or her voice to sort the mess that Mumbai has denegenerated into. Probably because they have wonderful holiday/second/weekend homes in global cities like New York, London, Singapore or Dubai… Anywhere but Slumbai.”

“A day before his arrest, he had tweeted, “You have arrested the wrong person, slumbai police.””

CEFR level