Normally when it comes to surveys and projects regarding a particular settlement and the people residing there, we always approach them according to our comfortability and choice without considering theirs. To come out of the accustomed course of action, we reversed the gaze on ourselves and Bhawna and Rohini ( conducted exercises that tested our reactions as well our nature of questioning. We went digging deep into our own family's history to benchmark the starting point. Using oral history, which is a method of collecting historical information, and ethnography which is also a method to examine the behaviour and social situations we collected stories from each and every household by having deep conversations with them and spending time with them. The  readings of Svetlana Alexievich, the Unwomanly face of war
The death of Luigi Trastulli, oral history
Palestine, Joe Sacco
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The River of Stories, Orijit Sen,
helped us get an idea of how opening up to them will help them give up their inhibitions and reluctance and become bold enough to open up with us and share information. We took these basic parameters to the Mhada colony in Govandi, a suburban neighborhood near Chembur where people from all over Maharashtra have been relocated there through the lottery system and one where you will find people from all over India. We got acquainted with Parveen Ji who is the representative of the people living there got us familiar with the place. We divided ourselves into four groups to focus on four different communities just to make it easy to find the network of people in relation with the first family we approach. As a group studying people coming from Bihar, we traced their whole journey and the routes that they've taken from their native place to Mumbai. We inculcated their stories in the form of pop out. At the end of it, we made a museum that presents their stories to the world.