New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- Afroza Khatun's makeshift home in south Delhi's Nizamuddin Basti is a patchwork of desperation and ingenuity. A sheet of corrugated tin separates an already cramped room into two pigeonholes where neither sunlight nor the haunting qawwalis wafting from the dargah next door are permitted to enter. The roof is a precarious arrangement of tin, tarpaulin, and occasional concrete slab, often sagging under the weight of monsoon water or accumulated debris and waste. Outside, electrical wires hug buildings like desperate lifelines crisscrossing structures. Khatun doesn't own any curtains but a line of faded fabrics creates an illusion of a canopy. A domestic worker, she has been saving up to buy a cotton curtain to hang on w...