By Vandana Vasudevan
ISBN-10: 8132113098
ISBN-13: 9788132113096
Through the microcosm of higher Noida, a suburb of recent Delhi, the writer attracts a portrait of lifestyles in a semi-urban city, the place billion greenback houses and villages with out sewage process proportion an analogous pin code. a few farmers promote their land and take a look at to deal with a brand new discovered prosperity; others refuse and holiday into agitations that make newspaper headlines. A builder destroys a wetland to make a township whereas the center type in excessive rises frets approximately strength and safety. a number of kilometres away, the formulation One occasion hosts foreign celebrities amidst bewildered villagers. dwelling here's being witness to the contradictions and ironies that happen while India is pressured to co-exist with Bharat.
The writer often attracts parallels with related different types of urbanisation at the outskirts of alternative Indian metros. around the kingdom, the town gobbles up progressively more of what used to be the countryside—whether it really is Sriperumbudur in Chennai, Belapur in Mumbai, Yelahanka at the outskirts of Bengaluru or Rajarhat New city in Kolkata. regardless of the place you reside in India, the tale of this ebook may be the tale you spot on your city.
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