(The Economic and Political Weekly
February 24, 2007)
Sabarmati: Creating a New Divide?
As the Sabarmati river divides the city of Ahmedabad into East and West, a new wall
divides this once cosmopolitan city into the “new city” and the “old city”. While Ahmedabad has had a long communal history, the violence of 2002 broke the backbone of the Muslim community, resulting in their ghettoisation and polarising the city’s areas
along a communal divide that seems almost impossible to bridge.
by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
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