Thirty-four-year-old Anita Dhole has been camping on the footpath in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar along with her family for two years now. She chose homelessness over living at the transit camp in Mumbai’s Mahul area, where she and 5,500 other families were forced to shift to after their homes along the Tansa pipeline were demolished in 2017.

“We are camping here because we want to live and Mahul isn’t habitable,” she explains.