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No place to call home
Updated On: 29 May, 2013 05:54 AM IST | | Hassan M Kamal
Mumbai's homeless are not only looked down upon as a burden, but also as a taboo that lives in fear of being thrown out of the city's limits. They remain the invisible force that runs the metropolis as Hassan M Kamal discovered, when he scoured three different corners of the city to find out how unaccounted labour survives against the odds
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Opposite the Lower Parel Railway Station in Mumbai, a small group of Marathi-speaking families have made the pavement their home.
Everyday, they travel to Khar Naka, outside the Khar Railway Station to work as daily wage labourers. While the men work in the construction industry, the women are head loaders; the children sell gajras or beg in local trains.
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