How far has green activism by Delhi’s middle class benefited the city? It hasn’t resolved a single problem and it has also marginalized the urban poor. That’s the thesis of this volume by Amita Baviskar, professor of sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth in New Delhi. Her opinion, and it’s a convincing one, is that ‘bourgeois environmentalists’ have made Delhi unfair and unlivable. Strong words.
The first part of her book, ‘Remaking landscapes and lives,’ focuses on the exploitative relationship between the State and. . .
