Diya Mehra and Lalit Batra
Diya Mehra and Lalit Batra
Neoliberal Delhi: Through the Lens of the Yamuna Pushta Demolitions
Posted on 03 Jul, 2016 03:38 PMBefore January 2004 the banks of the river Yamuna (the Yamuna Pushta), on which the city of Delhi is built, was home to over a hundred and fifty thousand people. By May 2004 it was reduced to a heap of rubble bearing an uncanny resemblance to a bombed out war zone. No, the Pushta residents are not part of the ‘axis of evil’ as defined by Messers George Bush and Company!