Slumbai

English

Etymology

Blend of slum +‎ Mumbai.

Proper noun

Slumbai

1. (derogatory) Mumbai.
   • 2004 October 12, The Times of India:

     How Slumbai is being shanghaied?

   • 2005, Outlook, page 21:

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

   • 2014, Tristram Hunt, Ten Cities That Made an Empire, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

     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’.

   • 2016 June 24, Srinath Sridharan, “Slum shame & rains: In Mumbai, sab chalta hai”, in The Asian Age‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2022 January 9, “‘Bulli Bai” accused Bishnoi tells police he hacked websites”, in Millennium Post‎^[2]:

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