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Four Weeks Stay on Demolition [From The Hindu]
23.06.2006

>From THE HINDU
Friday, June 23, 2006
by Siddharth Narrain

"The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Government not to
demolish the slum cluster [sic] at Nangla Machi in the Capital for four
weeks.

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Some Fragments, by Lakhmi
21.06.2006

When the land is flat for miles, even a slight elevation looks like a
height. A road is being built around the land with a radius of two
kilometers. It is three feet above the land it surrounds. This road will
lead to Haryana. The path is littered with broken boulders. Several pairs
of hands beat at them with hammers to flatten them into the earth.

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>From Far and From Close, by Yashoda
20.06.2006

When you look from far, Ghewda looks like an endearingly small new
settlement made of beautiful new woven mats. It looks open, airy, pretty.

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Ghewda: 17th June, 2006
18.06.2006

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In construction, Ghewda.

Parchee, again
13.06.2006

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13th June, 2006. Again, it was heard parcheez were to be given out.

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A Temporary Edge, by Priya
13.06.2006

It takes almost Rs. 5000 to build a jhuggi out of chatai. There are shops
now in Ghewra that sell building material for making jhuggies out of
chatai. Tarpaulin from Loni, string from Shahdara. The jhuggies are
supposed to be temporary. But noone knows whether that means 3 months or
two and a half years.

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Ghewda: 4th May to 9th June, 2006
10.06.2006

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Left: Gehwda, 4th May 2006; Right: Ghewda, 9th June, 2006.
Photos by Lakhmi and Shabana.

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The beginning, by Rakesh
05.06.2006

Again this wait, in which hopeful eyes search the land of resettlement for
signs of hope. This land, away from the banks of the river, away from the
centre of the city, away in the peripheries of the city, where there is
nothing. Here, where gathering resources to live seems impossible, families
have been sent. Settled, lived land has been dismantled and its pieces have
been ejected out of the city, left on the land called Sawda-Ghewda.

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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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