When Asha Manohar Diwar came to Kamathipura as a young bride she was fascinated by all the gaudiness she saw around her. Hailing from the temple town of Shirdi, her life had been too staid. The thought of settling down in Mumbai had excited her and she was eager to show her parents her new home, a one room kitchen flat in the Alishan building in Kamathipura’s 10th lane.