A day in the life of a chowkidar

Twitterati on either side of the political fence needs to walk for a day or two in their shoes to understand how precariously India's unorganised sector teeters on the brink

The other day a friend asked me to search for the word chowkidar on Twitter. Dozens of Twitter handles prefixed with chowkidar opened up. Prefixing a hashtag to chowkidar in the search bar opened up another can of worms altogether. As politicians, opinion makers and the obnoxiously opinionated battled it out over the humble epithet on social media, I found myself thinking of D P Singh, an actual chowkidar. His life story isn’t unique; in fact, it is pretty much like that of many others like him who have found employment in the city, thanks to the widening divide between