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Yamuna Gently Weeps is the story of one of the biggest and oldest slums in Delhi and in India, called Yamuna Pushta. A slum that gave shelter to 1,50,000 people and which nurtured more than 40,000 homes. A world within a world existed in Yamuna Pushta.

This book takes you into the homes and lives of slum dwellers and the vicious politics involved in on of the biggest demolition in India. It takes you into the lives of those poor families, whose past, present and future, were brutally demolished.

In 2004, the slum was viciously demolished, in a matter of weeks, leaving children, old people, pregnant women, those ailing and bed ridden, to the mercy of the streets or on a barren piece of land, bereft of home, shelter, water, electricity and a source of livelihood.

Neither the Judiciary, those in Power nor the implementing agencies, had heard of the concept called, REHABILITATION.

Just twenty percent of the families whose homes were demolished, were in the guise of resettlement, shoved forty kilometres away from the main city and civilization, onto a barren piece of land in Bawana, where there was no proper sanitation, no medical facility, pathetic water supply, no electricity, and worst of all, no scope of earning one's livelihood. All this and more in the middle of peak summer.

Ruzbeh N. Bharucha, journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, takes the reader into the lives of those poor families, whose past, present and future, were brutally demolished.

The author, present throughout the demolition process, as well as a witness to the heartlessness of those in power, through interviews with slum dwellers and politicians; eminent town planners, environmentalists and activists; as well as through the eyes of those who lost it all, tells a heartrending tale, of tears, courage, determination and most importantly, brings to light, the hollowness of the system and all that, which once was held, sacred and beyond reproach.

Ruzbeh can just hold the mirror, hoping the image that is seen, helps to bring about some change, in the minds of the readers and viewers and thus propel some positive change in the lives of thousands of our poor people, who work and toil for our comfort and are treated in so undignified a manner.

To know more about the book, please log on to www.yamunagentlyweeps.com

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	"I object to violence because when it appears to be good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. - Mahatma Gandhi