Some months ago, I got a call from SNEHA, an organisation that works with maternal and adolescent health issues in Dharavi. Would I write a play to be performed by kids in the adolescent sexuality programme? It was part of something called the Dharavi Biennale, an event where local craftspersons would create art to be displayed around Dharavi.

I was intrigued but also ambivalent. I’d never written a play before. On top of that, working with kids from a completely alien context. Why make life more complicated than it already is?