Golak Khandual's City and the Games

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Preface

Planners want to turn Delhi into a ‘world class city’. New Delhi has to shine. By the year 2010 everything should be in order. New stadia, new sewage and water supply systems, shiny bus shelters of steel. The city is going to sparkle like it has never done before. As Delhi transforms itself from metropolis to megapolis it calls for sacrifices. The city turns on itself and begins to eat its own limbs, its own lungs, its own organs. Historic habitations get replaced by new architecture of steel and spandrel glass. The scale starts changing, spaces get transformed, transmuted. People work overground and underground night and day. Gradually a new creature emerges. A city of light. A city of no night.