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...family to Bombay: India will be the next China; if you're looking to the future, you've got to be in India. As the nation's business capital, Bombay is the crucible of India's hopes, drawing families like Afzad's, which came to the city's northern slum of Saki Nagar 15 years ago from a village hundreds of miles away in the interior. Ten people living in a two-bedroom shanty, they had television, electricity and a telephone, and a foothold in India's city of opportunity. "It was a good place," says 14-year-old Mohammed...
...into this ruin-strewn countryside. Today, of course, things are different. In the past century, New Delhi's population has grown from some 200,000 to over 15 million, and the fate of those ruins is most uncertain in a city where one-quarter of the populace live in slums and one-third have no sanitation; city officials, understandably, have other priorities. Already, most of the ruins seen by Franklin have disappeared. Those that remain stand not in open countryside, but atop roundabouts or tucked in beside the high-rises and flyovers of South Delhi. They obscure the fairways...
...municipal urinal or the haveli courtyard house of his great rival Ghalib is revealed to have been turned into a coal store; but most of the losses go unrecorded. I find it heartbreaking: every time I revisit one of my favorite monuments, it has either been overrun by a slum, unsympathetically restored by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), or simply demolished. By now, almost all the havelis of Old Delhi have been destroyed. According to historian Pavan Varma, the majority of the buildings he recorded in his book Mansions at Dusk 13 years ago no longer exist...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, Maryland, U.S. Lives in Limbo I read the story about Nigerian refugees [June 20] with mixed feelings. Nigeria faces numerous problems, but some of its emigrants just reinforce the myth that we are a nation of scam artists. Can a family that lives in a slum in Lagos afford air travel to Ireland? Nigeria 's debt prevents it from spending money on social programs and infrastructure that could help reduce poverty and corruption. What can the West do? Developed countries like Ireland should proactively focus on bettering the lives of would-be immigrants in their home...
...characterize property destruction -whether it is pulling up paving stones in Paris, breaking embassy windows in Jakarta or wrecking a slum-area store in Los Angeles-with a phrase like 'reckless, ignorant vandalism' is a political judgment," Cohen has written. He agrees with Fordham University Sociologist John M. Martin that every act of vandalism carries a heavy freight of motivation and even logic-though scanalized and law-abiding citizens are not likely to appreciate either. As a classic example, the Luddites who smashed the new textile machines at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution were venting their rage...