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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:59:54 +0530
| Stakeholders?
Nizamuddin Basti Faces Massive Demolition on April 10
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2007-April/009026.html
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2007-April/009032.html
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excerpts:
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these are big forces but what the hell *&^%$***#@!?^*
aga khan hai - chegez khan to nahin upar se woh bhi nahin uska ek
foundation ...
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Agha Khan, Changez nahin hai, but people say that Agha Khan foundation
is a full fledged country without borders. You must look at their site
http://www.akdn.org/ Although they are doing some good work too,
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...You may have wonderful visions for upgrading health, education
facilities, providing micro finance etc. but unless you have the
affected people endorsing that vision after having understood it, the
project will only remain a potential proposal. For frightened people on
the ground the most pressing issue is whether they will be able to save
their habitat and not the commendable idea of better integrating
monuments to the fabric of the Basti.
I do not write this email in an adversarial manner, but as a concerned
citizen who has too often witnessed what happens to poor people in the
margins of society when well-conceived design/planning/conservation
decisions about contested urban places are made. I would encourage you
to play a leading role in allaying the fears of the people in the Basti
by involving them in the making of the proposal as well as in putting
rumors to rest that right now suggest that the proposed project is yet
another expensive development project, which puts the interests of
environment/heritage etc. ahead of life and liberty of directly affected
citizens...
cont'd....
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2007-April/009046.html