90ft Road by night

We went out to map the 90ft Road by night. Starting at 8pm when the street's almost at it's busiest and most crowded with men, women and children. If we stopped to take notes or sketch it didn't take more than 10sec before we had a curious crowd surrounding us - wondering what we were doing.
2 boys 12year old Said and 12 year old Robinson followed us for a long time, sometimes explaining som things (for example Robinson went to see a movie about once a month) but for the most part just keeping us company.
All the way down to the 60ft Road crossing the athmosphere was good and the street was very much alive with almost all shops, foodstands and restaurants open.
After crossing 60ft Road we ran into a large crowd of people who just stood there staring. After a while I asked Robinson what was going on.

"Look, look in that window. The pink one"

Robinson said pointing at a window in a nearby 7 storybuilding. What I saw was something I hoped I would never get to see.
A woman had comitted suicide by hanging herself from the cealing.

What struck me the most was that the family didn't bother to cover the windows. In most cultures comitting suicide is something shameful, I'm not sure about hinduism or Islam.
For me it seemed more as lack of respect for the deceased, to let her hang there for everyone to see. Or was that what she wanted.. I'm not so sure.

Another thing, unlike the in culture where I come from in India it is ok to stare. And people stared, hundereds of them. After a while they started noticing our precense, it took a few seconds longer than usual, some of the people started saying to us "look, look suicide" like it was some kind of happening.
This experience gave me a really uncanny feeling that lasted a long time, still when I think about it. That night we got to see a totally different side of Dharavi than the happy curious kids that normally set the mood and athmosphere of each day.