Clearing away the old for the Games in Delhi

Delhi attracts migrants from all over India (as well as some like me, from the rest of world) and is now the most cosmopolitan and fastest-growing of India's large cities. . .

It is also visibly preparing for its next moment of anxiously anticipated glory, the Commonwealth Games of 2010.

Unsurprisingly, then, there are construction sites all over the city. But despite this extraordinary speed of development, Delhi remains both the leafiest and most archaeologically impressive of the world's megacities.

But much of this architectural heritage remains unrecorded and unprotected -- as the author goes on to describe. From the BBC.

Posted by David on June 27, 2009 10:30 PM