India, Feb. 26 -- Twelve days after being evicted from her one-room-kitchen flat in Roshni Apartments - one of the 41 unauthorised buildings demolished in Agarwal Nagar in Vasai East - this 80-year-old still has no roof over her head. She has been camping on the vacant plot - on an old bed - since she has nowhere to go.

Munira Shaikh's building was one the first to be constructed in Agarwal Nagar 25 years ago, when she had bought her 300-square foot home for a total consideration of Rs.4 lakh - her life savings.

People who watch her live on her bed, which sits unevenly on the now vacant plot, believe the government should accommodate her elsewhere on humanitarian grounds, but Shaikh doesn't think so. "I have lived here and will die here...