Singing to bring about change

A group of Dalit women is questioning the status quo through Ambedkari 'jalsa'

- Riddhi Doshi

Damu Nagar near Mumbai's Sanjay Gandhi National Park is one of those places where slum fires are a frequent occurrence. When residents hear "Cooker phat gaya" (an LPG cylinder has blasted), they all fetch that bag of documents, which is always handy, and run for their life.

It's almost been a decade since 2015's massive fire, which gutted thousands of homes and every documental evidence they had of their residence. Yet the residents of Damu Nagar live in constant fear of losing their household in an ongoing conflict with the government to get a new set of documents, which proves their residence in the slum.