The word "shack" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that is used to refer to a small, simple building such as a hut or cabin. For example: "We went camping and stayed in a little shack by the lake."
In Mumbai and across the world, Arputham has long been an inspirational figure within an alliance of organisations helping slum and shack residents to stand up for their rights, find new homes, and plot a way out of urban poverty.
"Slum-dwellers face a double burden: they face the crisis, and if they talk about it, they face evictions," said Sheela Patel, a social worker who has helped the city's shack and slum dwellers access suitable housing and infrastructure for two decades.
In Sri Lanka I have stared out from an unnamed beach shack on stilts at the aquamarine waters of the Indian Ocean and watched fishermen haul in their catch for the day's shellfish curry.
Further around the coast, Cane Garden Bay rivals the shack for nightlife and is billed as the island's finest beach, although with Cane Garden's jet skis, tourists and karaoke, Long Bay far outdid it for me.
My aesthetics of crime were self-creation and I went back to shack up with Stilitano.
This upmarket thatched beach shack on the cusp of the Corales del Rosario national park has a vast inside-outside yellow living space and ocean views from the kitchen.
Although you need to carry most of your food, there are two places to eat along the way - a crab shack selling salmon and other seafood and Chez Monique's, famous for its burgers.
The villagers' suspicion and scapegoating of the trio cowering in a thrown-together shack on the common land sets in train a series of violent events that empties the village and only smoothes the path to enclosure.
The nearest toilet for most people is a hole they have dug in a bare patch of ground at the back of their shack.
