[Reader-list] Nangla's Delhi - 17 April

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The Journey After, 
by Rakesh
17.04.2006 14:57 CEST

His face bears a thousand lines, like a map through which Ataabul traces
the path to return to his yesterday. His eyes are moist. Many questions
seem alive in them, rising as if from deep inside his turbulent heart. The
walls of the new house have not been plastered yet. The threshold is
without a door. Ataabul sits beside it, his back to it, his legs folded
under him. He is wearing a white kurta pyjama. Light is flooding in from
the door-less threshold, hiding his face in darkness, loosing itself in the
grey walls of the house.

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Measure 02, 
Cybermohalla Ensemble
17.04.2006

A short video using a still (digital) camera, at Nangla Maachi. To us, it
is intriguing in the blurring of lines between measuring for "Building" and
measuring for "Demolition". For Measure 01, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03LmdaxVlrY
Video created: March 30, 2006.

At the Crossroads, 
by Babli and Rabiya
17.04.2006

Today Nangla Maanchi stands at the crossroads of life where the lane, the
house, the space, the street corners which had been considered to be ones
own for twenty years are today being snatched away. Who is it who is
snatching away the small space that one called ones courtyard and why? What
is it that lies ahead? Everyone has an answer to this, but everyone
crosschecks with each other, trying to get a stamp of consensus from those
they are surrounded by.

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It quenches the thirst of the thirsty, 
Such is Nangla,
It shelters those who come to the city of Delhi, 
Such is Nangla. 
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