while visiting  Natwar Parekh Colony, we met Parveen Ji, a social worker and community member  who has spent over twenty years standing up for the rights of slum and pavement dwellers, especially women from marginalised communities. In her calm but firm voice, she began to share her journey, not just of moving into a building, but of losing something far more precious along the way. After years of living on the footpath, she had fought tirelessly for makeing community ,formal housing, organising people,  fought with  government officers, and keeping hope alive . When the house allotments finally came but after 2 year  of finishing the construction but. What awaited them at Natwar Parekh was a colony full of garbage and broken promises. Construction debris was never cleared because the Natwar Parekh colony is  situated beside Asia's largest dumping ground and the flats were allotted through a random lottery that tore old neighbours apart. People who had once cooked together, cried together, and survived together on the footpath were now scattered across different buildings and floors. The lifts did not work because parts had been stolen. Climbing up and down seven floors every day became exhausting, especially for the elderly and for mothers carrying children. Slowly, people stopped visiting each other.  The flats themselves were dark and suffocating, no ventilation, no sunlight, just a constant sense of being trapped. Children had no space to play. Girl children were often kept indoors. she confidently called the colony as 'seven floor jhopda'  and 'house of murdabad '