Main nahin chowkidar | The Indian Express

Main nahin chowkidar | The Indian Express

Written by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Updated: March 23, 2019 1:55:25 pm

The writer is director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.

Main nahin chowkidar

BJP slogan gets it so wrong. No self-respecting chowkidar would like to be in that job in India

The smart city concept, under the BJP regime, enhances the economic gap between chowkidars and sahukars (well-heeled).

When I go to Delhi, from the airport to the inner city, the cabs take me via Munirka. Almost no house in Munirka that I pass by has a chowkidar at the gate. The semi-slum looks like a place that supplies chowkidars to the rich people of Delhi. As one reaches the Greater Kailash area, however, every house has a chowkidar at the gate, even in hot summer or in the bitter cold, standing in a small box.