<img title="Sajjan Kharwa at a painting workshop held at Pehchan&rsquo;s office in Tardeo" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/sep/Sajjan-Kharwa.jpg" alt="Sajjan Kharwa at a painting workshop held at Pehchan&rsquo;s office in Tardeo" />Sajjan Kharwa at a painting workshop held at Pehchan's office in Tardeo
Crayons and paints lay strewn in a tarpaulin tent on the pavement at Bodyguard Lane in Tardeo. They belong to 15-year-old Sajjan Kharwa, a Class 8 student, who has cleared Maharashtra State Board's Elementary Grade Drawing Examination. His favourite pastime is observing his mother sell old clothes on the pavement and depicting it on a sheet of paper.
<img title="Brijesh Arya, founder, Pehchan" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/sep/Brijesh-arya.jpg" alt="Brijesh Arya, founder, Pehchan" />Brijesh Arya, founder, Pehchan
Roughly 20 minutes away is Aakash Gaikwad, who lives with his family on a pavement settlement near JJ Hospital. In his free time, the 12-year-old sketches the dichotomy that exists in his neighbourhood, as cars zoom past women cooking on the footpath.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/sep/Sajjan-Kharwa-artwork.jpg" alt="" />One of Kharwa's artworks that will be displayed at the exhibition at Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Tomorrow evening, between 6 pm and 8 pm, you can check out their artworks as part of an exhibition titled, This Is Where I Live, to be held at Tata Institute of Social Sciences' (TISS) campus in Deonar. They will share space with 14 other paintings created by members of the unhoused communities living inLondon,New YorkandBerlin. It has been curated by four organisations &ndash;Fresh Art inNew York,Berlin's Gitschiner 15, Caf&eacute; Art inLondonand Pehchan, a non-profit that works towards empowering the homeless in Mumbai.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/sep/Aakash-painting.jpg" alt="" />A drawing titled Home by Aakash Gaikwad, a Std 8 student who lives with his family near JJ Hospital
One of the biggest challenges, says the NGO founder Brijesh Arya, was finding artists from the marginalised community. "We felt women would be willing to participate but they found it difficult to even hold a crayon or pencil. So, we conducted three workshops with over a dozen children to gauge their skills, and selected five, whose works could match up to international standards," he adds.
<img title="Women from the unhoused community seen in the documentary 'Kapda, Kamra, Aur Kachra'" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/sep/bodyguard-lane.jpg" alt="Women from the unhoused community seen in the documentary 'Kapda, Kamra, Aur Kachra'" /> Women from the unhoused community seen in the documentary 'Kapda, Kamra, Aur Kachra'
Alongside the exhibition, TISS' School of Mediaand Cultural Studies (SMCS) in collaboration with Pehchan will host a panel discussion that focuses on the rights of the unhoused community in Mumbai and questions the limited access they have to space and resources.

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