Is the Modern Gated-Community Turning Us Into Brown Sahibs
What is emerging, where once the bungalows sprawled, is the densely-packed high-rise which, at the pretentious upper end, even as it replicates the postwar model of cheap housing, disguises its humble origins in fancy names redolent of California and other glamorous locations. After all, Gurgaon Heights does not have the same cachet as Malibu Mansions , even if the nearest beach is a million miles away…The gated community is a hybrid between the memory of the colonial Civil Lines and American suburbia – well-kept lawns, tree-l…
How Drunk-on-power Housing Societies Flex their Muscles ?
The White Tiger and its forensic scrutiny of class is now a Hollywood film but the author of the novel, Aravind Adiga, missed a trick when he portrayed his upper middle class characters’ contempt for the poor. The real pools of pure concentrated class hatred are the middle class and nothing embodies this hatred, the desire to make the poor invisible, to airbrush them out of the landscape, than Resident Welfare Associations. The minutes of one such RWA meeting in New Delhi ruled that, in the interests of preventing noise pollution, street …
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