Meet breakers Ramesh Anand Yadav, Arif Chaudhary and Johanna Rodrigues

Mumbai's break dancers pin their hopes on their passion to dance to get out of city's ghettos

A white tank top off the street, a pair of blue denims of no particular provenance and raw power that could be mistaken for a violent streak, Ramesh Anand Yadav, 24, aka B-Boy Tornado, is straight out of the badlands of Mumbai’s Markhund. He speaks of growing up in the slums, a social prison one can never leave, stained indelibly with opprobrium. “This area is blacklisted. Nobody wants to give you a job if you tell them where you are from,” says Yadav. His version of Mumbai is The Bronx, New York, of the 1980s, the birthplace of gangs, ghettos