"We were struggling but life was good," said the father, a heavyset man with graying hair in his mid-fifties.
The poor in India often don't have family photographs, and there are no pictures of the young woman in the damp two-room basement the family calls home.
There are also no closets. Almost all their belongings — clothes, blankets, towels, sheets — hang on nails hammered into the thin brick walls. A naked bulb is the room's only light, except for a tiny window that opens at street level.
The kids fought, as siblings do, but also loved spending time together. After dinner they would crowd into the room where they slept or watched "Bigg Boss," a reality show, and laugh at the contestants locked inside a house for several months.
