Mumbai: Land of the Slumgods.

So it was with some trepidation that HeRa took his first Indian student, Simon Talukdar's advice to move to Mumbai. The private school educated Talukdar, whom HeRa had randomly encouraged to start breaking in a coffee shop late one evening in Dehra Dun, had gone onto become India's first breaker.
Talukdar used his precious Sunday outings from the nearby Doon boarding school to learn the dance form from HeRa.
The two initially took classes and workshops together for the city's rich kids and Bandra's middle class college students. But something felt wrong.
They were going against the original grain of hip-hop "being an alternate urban secret. It's a ghetto thing, where I come from. Not something suburban kids did," Singh explains.
Succor came in the form of a random jaunt to Dharavi, to check out visiting European graffiti artists. Talukdar and HeRa started breaking and right there the kids around them just jumped in.
Breaking, doing handstands, flips and freestyle rap. These kids, completely removed from American hip hop culture, had it down pat. And it struck him. This was it. The real deal.
These were India's ghetto kids, HeRa realized. They had the music in their souls.
So the duo started teaching them a couple of times of a week. Sadly, many of the kids have jobs, and can't stick to the dancing.
But sometimes they do, and the luckier ones even make some money out of it. Some of the dancers even starred in the music video of crash metal Mumbai band, Scribe.
For Dharavi's young prodigies this complicated dance routine is their daily prayer and mantra, and its complicated nuances their escape from the drudgery of living life ghettoized in what's infamously become Asia's largest slum.
Going beyond TinyDrops, Simon, HeRa, a young breaker from Dharavi Akash Danghar and Indian American rapper Mandeep Sethi have also started an artists' collective called SLUMGODS, which brings together rappers, deejays, breakers, film-makers and photographers from India and America to promote artists.
Turning the euphemism Slum'dogs' on its head, because as Danghar puts it "we aren't dogs!" SLUMGODS is a crew which recognizes slums and the culture of poverty as being the roots of hip hop.
Whatever their reason to join, whether it's a Bollywood dance competition dream or just an artistic outlet that makes money on a curb, TinyDrops promises to shatter the limitations of everyday urban life.
Sadly, many of the kids have jobs, and can't stick to the dancing, but sometimes they do, and the luckier ones even make some money out of it.