This story appeared in Civil Society's September 2003 edition.
Till two years ago, what Sundernagari knew about itself it preferred to forget. A squalid and dilapidated neighbourhood in the festering eastern fringes of Delhi, the area had for long lived with broken roads, open drains, erratic power supply, garbage dumps and disease. If any hope existed among Sundernagari’s residents, it was that one day they could escape its hellish conditions. It was much too much to think that things could get better — that. . .
