The ramshackle metal construction is a haphazard ensemble of rope, poles and dirty plastic sheeting which barely keeps out swarms of hungry flies much less the merciless sun.
Inside Sunita Devi lies on a bed listlessly with her five-year-old daughter Chintu and husband Malik Sharma.
The family is merely a drop in the ocean; a collection of ragged souls in a global sea of 100 million people without a place to live.
The three-room house they used to call home on the banks of Delhi's River Yamuna is now nothing more than a pile of bricks and rubble. Bulldozers - which last week razed the slum Sunita and Malik lived in for the last 23 years - have seen to that.
Homeless, landless and jobless, 34-year-old Sunita is beyond crying.
'When the bulldozers came, it was around 4pm. We did not get any [advance] notice. They told us to collect all our stuff and then started demolishing. We were really upset. That was 23 years of life just knocked down in a flash,' she says.
