Urdu Park Axial Margins

An ongoing project (April 2015 – ) with the homeless women in the SPYM shelter in Urdu Park, Jama Masjid. 
Urdu Park has a large population of homeless people. Sreejata works with a group of about 16 women at the shelter who exist on as little as Rs. 300 a week, earned through begging. They have been abandoned by families and partners and are singly raising several children. The women and their children live in destitute conditions.
The women come from different parts of the country, and with Sreejata they have explored how the women negotiate changes in their lives, how they adjust to Urdu Park and its environs, and how they cope with the pressures of living life in a public space. They also look at how the women deal with shifts in personal identity, as well as their aspirations, fears, and vulnerabilities.

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