Michael Cronin's job as a college admissions officer took him to India two or three times a year, so he had already seen the usual sites -- temples, monuments, markets -- when one day he happened across a flier advertising "slum tours." "It just resonated with me immediately," said Cronin, who was staying at a posh Taj Hotel in Mumbai where, he discovered, a bottle of champagne cost the equivalent of two years' salary for many Indians. "But I didn't know what to expect," he said. Soon, Cronin, 41, found himself skirting open sewers and ducking to avoid exposed electrical wires as he toured the...
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![Munnar hill station, Kerala is wedged between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats. Lying between north latitudes 8°18' and 12°48' and east longitudes 74°52' and 72°22',[46] Kerala experiences the humid equatorial tropic climate.](http://cdn5.wn.com/vp/i/29/b07d5a9d7fc5fc.jpg){kind=small}
