A chawl (from Marathi चाळ, chāḷ) is a name for a type of building found in India. They are often 4 to 5 stories with about 10 to 20 tenements, referred to as kholis, which literally mean `rooms` on each floor. Many chawls can be found in Mumbai where they were constructed in abundance in the early 1900s to house the people migrating to .....