City forgotten | openDemocracy
▻http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/ayona-datta/city-forgotten
Watch: Through the eyes of residents, local activists and civil society members, ’City Forgotten’ tells the story of Malegaon’s fall from what was once the ’Manchester of India’, to a town blighted by communal violence and in serious decline. (15 mins)
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vJRLRdcujBc
Late one evening, my academic partner Abdul Shaban, his research assistant Noor Alam and I reached Malegaon in a hired car via a long dusty road off the Mumbai-Nashik highway. We lost our way several times even though both Shaban and Noor Alam had been to Malegaon several times earlier, but the nondescript nature of the road and the journey through fields and industrial setups in the dark can confuse anyone. We finally reached Malegaon by asking local passers-by, who assured us that this was indeed the road to the infamous town.
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