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A collection of glittering trophies outshine the overused utensils and torn bedsheet in Lal Bahadur’s shanty. A resident of Asha’s V. P. Singh camp, Lal Bahadur proudly shows the medals to people who visit him, telling them that his eldest daughter Sandhya has received these. A native of Arrah district of Bhojpur, Bihar, Lal Bahadur…

Little would one realize that the quiet and soft-spoken Chandan was the Asha topper with a whopping score of 89% (A grade) in class 12. Hailing from Jeevan Nagar slum colony, 19-year-old Chandan is the son of a daily wage labourer and the eldest amongst three siblings. Chandan’s tryst with Asha began about fourteen years…

Harshit and Harsh are twins, sons of a family living in Chanderpuri slum colony. Their father came to the city out of  desperation for earning livelihood when the children were about 4 years of age. The family found a small piece of land in the east of Delhi next to a railway line. They built…

“I was born in great poverty to parents who lived in a slum by the railway track. My father was a labourer doing low paid work at Asia’s largest scrapyard, breaking down old cars or machines with crude tools and implements, and earning barely 75 pounds in a month. The biggest tragedy is that after…