A01=Sidharth Bhatia
Author_Sidharth Bhatia
Category=NHF
disguised as development
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fractures-social
housing projects
piercing look
privileged few
relentless transformation
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- ISBN 9789369893416
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 140 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2025
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since the East India Company merged seven islands into Bombay (now Mumbai), change has been constant-but now it is used as a weapon for displacement, disguised as development. Slums are erased overnight to make way for luxury towers priced in tens of crores. The working class is pushed to the margins-literally-and into distant housing projects with no infrastructure, transport or sanitation. Entire communities are uprooted while a new Mumbai is built for the privileged few, behind closed gates, inside glass walls.
Sidharth Bhatia is a Mumbai-born journalist and writer. He has been in the media, print and electronic, for over four decades. He is a founding editor of The Wire. Earlier, Sidharth was of the original team that launched the Mumbai-based English daily.
