The enchanting ‘Kathputli Colony’, located about two minutes away from the Shadipur metro station in Delhi (India), has fortunately become international media’s sweetheart recently. Global media publications including TIME, BBC and Guardian have extensively written and expressed concerns over the ongoing feud of the colony with the DDA developers (Delhi Development Authority) who have offered to dislocate the families of puppeteers, artists, sculptors, magicians, snake charmers, musicians and dancers living in Kathputli for generations and “relocate” them first to a transit camp and then to buildings with urban 1 BHK flats. “Inko flat de rahe hai, acha kaam kar hai (we are giving them flats so we are doing good work), says the DDA. But from whose perspective is it good? Definitely not from these people’s perspectives,” says Poornima Sardana, a woman who has been slowly, silently and obstinately working towards giving a voice and a sharp face to Kathputli Colony through her initiative ‘Friends of Kathputli Colony Delhi’. Read the whole story here.
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