With just one suitcase and a duffel bag, 29-year-old Mahi Malhotra (name changed on request) boarded the flight from New Delhi to Bengaluru to start a new phase in her life. She had landed herself a coveted job at one of India’s leading IT companies, which meant uprooting herself from the city she had called home all her life. Two weeks later, she had found herself a new house in an upmarket gated society. But there was a catch. She had neither any furniture nor money to buy one after paying the atrocious security deposit for the flat.