The Human Costs of Building a ‘World-Class’ City
In Advance of the G20 Summit, New Delhi Has Demolished Neighborhoods and Displaced Thousands
On a hot summer day in New Delhi, a young resident of the posh area of Greater Kailash looked down from the window of his air-conditioned room.
“I don’t know how people tend to drink lemonade from these carts—it’s so unhygienic,” he said, referring to nimbu paani, a popular tart salty-sweet drink often served in earthen pots. He added that the street vendors’ carts were a nuisance for him when he went out for a drive in his luxury car.
In recent decades, diverse political parties, corporations, and elite citizens have shared …
