This narrow, two-lane road is bumpy and riddled with potholes. Buildings line both sides. By afternoon, it is choked with e-rickshaws and trucks, leaving no space for parking.

This is not the entry to an unauthorised colony. Cyber Hub is just 4 km away, and Ambience Mall is 6 km from here. Yet, the road paints a story of neglect and prolonged litigation, one in which residents of the area have been unwilling main characters.

For four decades, residents of Gurgaon’s Sector 21 have been fighting for a direct entry road to their sector. In its absence, they have been forced to rely on this narrow, 8-metre-wide stretch for their daily commutes.

“It is a violation of our fundamental rights,” said Kundan Lal Sharma, General Secretary of the Residents’ Welfare Association (RWA), Sector 21.

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