“There once was a fair city, among cities of the world, the first in fame, it hath been ruined and laid desolate, to that city I belong, Delhi is its name.” So, said the renowned poet Mir Taqi Mir, over 200 years ago. If Mir were alive today, he would have been yet more heartbroken.
Delhi is one of the oldest civilisations in India and has been inhabited, plundered and destroyed time and again, dynasty after dynasty. The tale of New Delhi’s future as we now see it is no different.
