Given the hot button subject that encroachment is, it touches Mumbaikars’ lives in so many different ways and it is not surprising that our reportage on encroachment of shanties being built right into the sea evinced robust response.

This paper also consequently highlighted how it was not just in the shores, but also seas that see substantial encroachment. A report in this paper stated how a sea-facing house is not elusive in pricey Mumbai. One can actually rent a hut in Mahim, with a view of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. These homes have been propped up on bamboo and stretches of the Mahim beach are overrun.