The title of this should be "White Boy Goes Slumming". I work in a homeless shelter in the USA. Poverty is not a tourist attraction and poor people are not there to make rich people feel good about themselves.

Sorry but this sounds a lot like larping poverty. There's nothing wrong with traveling in poor countries and staying with poor people but when you take photos of poor people stuff and make a moving article where you say how it "opened your eyes".. it really screams slum tourism / poverty porn and it is cringe.

Sorry, i must have missed something. But can someone please explain why there is so much trash everywhere? And dont be rude, i am asking seriously.

Always so happy and elated when i see people explore other parts of the world. In my opinion, i think people are hateful towards other people of different backgrounds in other parts of the world because of the stereotypes perpetuated and exaggerated by the media. As a traveler myself, i appreciate your efforts and thank you for sharing your experiences. ;)

There are many that live like this, or worse, It's great that they still have their hopes and dreams.

I ha e volunteered in small Indian village for 6 weeks - amazing expertgetting trough language barrier, to get to jnowblocal people, their families and life stories - great memories))

I solo backpacked India for a bit. What blew my mind was how they lived in such conditions and yet had smiles, were kind and never seemed down or depressed. Always willing to share the little they had. I'm still trying to figure it out.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm amazed at those smiling faces. It's a reminder to never take things for granted.

I'm sure that really helped. They are still there and you are not

I lived there for 4 years!

This is just poverty porn. It's sick.

Appreciate the effort and everything and not to discredit anything but this is just adding more to the stereotype view of india. Not all of india is slum or poor. And a surprisingly lot of the information is still quite unknown/surprising to outsiders. :/

I am glad you experienced how to live in a slum, even it was just a couple of days. What you've seen and learned there will stay with you your entire life. I experienced hard life in Morocco and I understand so much more, I don't care anymore about possesions, because I leaned what life is about: family, friends and helping others out. I saw people with no money, no nothing, sharing their meals with others or even with cats. And even the very poor offering you to drink a coffee with them. This touched me a lot and I realised giving is so much more than having. I hope this experience gave you life-lessons and inner peace. For people who don't understand the garbage and filth: people in the slum are just surviving, if you don't know if you will eat that day, no other things are important. It is when people don't have to worry about food or a place to sleep, they see the world around them.

Wow that was so beautiful to see your journey in India. I also had that same idea that the slums were in a different shape than how you experienced them in the video. It's interesting to witness~ completely opens up my perspective to what is reality than what we perceive originally. Thanks for this new understanding!

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Jacob, this was such a beautiful post, with your amazing video and all. Reminds me of my own time in India....Varanasi......in the 1990s. Let us keep spreading words of love and compassion. Namaste

I appreciate Jacob Laukaitis's efforts, but my concern is that, slums in mumbai are very very different, where living situation are very hard but different from rest of india. Mumbai city always running, running and running. understand to life in mumbai is very difficult, not easy. so please not think about whole india or do not compare to other cities. buy a single room apartment or house is very costly in mumbai area, living cost also high. although homeless people in Mumbai are more happier then NYC or London. Indian cities are progressive. more important about india : Indian people are very loving, caring and compare to other nations. So Jacob my friend, next time travel another cities in India. I hope you will be more happy than before.

Thank you, what a wonderful little film!

India is a hole. These people suffer their conditions mainly because of caste or skin color. This guy's adventure is irrelevant, as nothing will change there.

Why are people who are so poor they can't provide for themselves having kids and dooming them to that life? They desperately need education and birth control. At 1.38 BILLION, India's population is out of control.

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Even without a penny to my name, I could never conceivably treat the environment with such utter contempt and disregard. I've lived in rural Romania - farming communities with no electricity or sanitation. It was like living in the Middle Ages and yet they had the most natural, respectful bond with nature and sought to look after some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever encountered. I understand that people are still people and have individual stories to tell, but there are some communities that simply don't care about the world we live in and I'm afraid I don't accept poverty as an excuse. Farming tribes in Africa, South America, the Australian outback and Siberia manage to survive on nothing, yet don't make the place look like a s**thole.