India, Feb. 15 -- Continuing their decades-long fight for housing, Mumbai's old mill workers and their kin gathered at Azad Maidan on Wednesday to once again protest. Around 3,000 workers were present, some from the city, some from corners of the state and beyond, some even completing a 12-hour-long journey standing in the train from Telangana.

Of the estimated 1.5 lakh mill workers, only around 15,000 have got the subsidised houses promised to them. "Ghar aamchya hakkacha, nahi kunachya bapaacha (A house is our right, not a favour)," read a placard.

When asked if they would actually receive the subsidised houses in their lifetime, the elderly mill workers said they had absolutely no way to tell. "We have hope, that's why we are here. O...