Khan Market gang’s blinkers couldn’t spot the India which sees dynasts as obstruction to its dreams | The Indian Express

Khan Market gang’s blinkers couldn’t spot the India which sees dynasts as obstruction to its dreams | The Indian Express

Written by Jaya Jaitly |Updated: June 14, 2019 8:22:44 am

The writer is former president of the Samata Party.

Khan Market gang’s blinkers couldn’t spot the India which sees dynasts as obstruction to its dreams

Narendra Modi, who exclusively controlled the discourse during campaigning both in 2014 and 2019, cleverly ensured that aspiration and entitlement for the voter, particularly the youth, came wrapped in contempt for entitled dynasts.

Khan market was affordable for the likes of us teenage girls who, in the 1960s would bicycle there for a low-cost ice cream.

Khan Market changed after the aura of “refugee spaces” wore off. Nearby markets such as Meherchand Market, Lodhi Colony Market and Khanna Market in New Delhi catered to different groups of refugees but were all housed within a radius of 2-3 kilometers from the other by Meherchand Khanna, the Union minister looking after refugee rehabilitation after Partition. What has become the upwardly mobile Meherchand Market used to be largely for tailors whose claim to fame was the ability to turn frayed suits inside out to make them look new.