A thousand copies are printed and pasted throughout the city enthusiastically by these children. Their only problem is the police, who find them a nuisance and tear the newspaper whenever they get the chance. Headlines range from simple issues like "Why children run away from home" to grim ones like "Food is the primary concern for street children and one way to have a full tummy is to rely on a homosexual man."

Polite is bourgeois
Slum Jagatu (Slum World) is a monthly newspaper brought out by slum dwellers in Bangalore. It was launched three years ago and today has a circulation of 2500. Militant in its views, it feels that the Indian media has let slums down and only slum dwellers can understand the problems of slum dwellers. The entire reporting is done by slum dwellers spread over seven districts in Karnataka, who write in a blunt colloquial prose that offends many. So much so that once local housing authorities got so offended with certain articles, that they returned their copies to the newspaper office and refused to read subsequent copies. But still, various civic bodies buy 1000 copies of Slum Jagatu.

The paper has been branded "anti-Gandhi", because it doesn’t believe in his brand of non-violence. It’s been called "anti-state" because it believes that the city is developing because of the slums and the government doesn’t even provide them the basic amenities. It’s been called "antibrahministic", because it feels that brahiminism has resulted in many ills in the society for which they are suffering today. They also feel that the society as a whole is harassing the slum society. So what are their demands? Water. Sanitation. Housing? No. They just want legal recognition, for they feel all the rest will just follow.