Few things in life are as compelling as a full bladder. Last month, it made 22-year-old Laxmi Pandit plead, bargain and fight with the hard-nosed attendant of a toilet near Bandra Terminus who refused to allow her in. Due to a water cut, this three-storeyed Sulabh Shauchalaya had been locked for a whole day—clogging the bodily plumbing of hundreds of women such as Pandit who, ironically enough, live atop a water pipeline.
“From 11 am to 9.30 pm, we had to control ourselves,” recalls Pandit, whose system retched and vomited in protest. “Imagine what the pregnant women must have gone through,” adds the resident of this 1800-shanties-strong Indira Nagar slum where most female bladders rely on the two first-floor ladies’ loos of this public toilet for relief.

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