It was earlier this month that this newspaper had published a series of articles about Celine Sequeira, an 83-year-old resident of a four-storey house in Borivali West that the BMC is now threatening to redevelop. Sequeira is the only person remaining in the building. The three paying guests she had left the premises some time ago, robbing her of her only source of income. Her electricity and water supplies have been cut off, and Sequeira has no money left for food either. You can thus imagine the plight of the octogenarian, living isolated in darkness, hunger and thirst at a time when the pandemic wreaks havoc on people’s health, wealth and mental framework.

Celine Sequeira being gifted a cake on Mother’s Day