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What is a chawl?

What is a chawl? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
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He has not forgotten the crowded chawl he lived in before he got his first break.
Atul Loke, Indian photographer, using a documentary style, relates the somewhat precarious living conditions in a chawl, a collective house where several families live.
It's an older vision of redevelopment: this chawl was built over 30 years ago.
Five years ago, when she was twenty, Greeta and her family moved into a three-by-four meter room in a chawl, a tenement where each family occupies a room with no bathroom nor kitchen.
They lived together in a room apartment in a chawl owned by the local touts.
I remember very clearly how the atmosphere changed when Raju Korde took me into his chawl.

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