“I first came to Bombay from Allahabad to visit my sister. I was in high school at the time, but the cost of my education

“I am Gauri Kapur, from Sonepat, Haryana and I got diagnosed with brain cancer in 2016. Now is the most crucial time for me as

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“I was 19 when I first met her during Navratri. I immediately asked my cousin if he knew who she was and to introduce me

“I came here to the city in 1962, from Uttar Pradesh, with my father and did my schooling here. After my schooling, I joined technical

“I never told my children what was my job. I never wanted them to feel shame because of me. When my youngest daughter asked me

“I lost my eyesight because of typhoid when I was three years old. After I lost my vision, I also lost my father in the

“There was a dance competition at school and I had chosen to play the female lead. When I got home father punished me for what

“I was eight years old when while returning back from school I fell down from the auto rickshaw and got a white scar on my

“I grew up in a slum in Bombay. Since I was young, my father didn’t keep very well and I grew up watching my mother