Saharanpur mosque, Satya Niketan PG are monuments to the same politics of violence and neglect
Two ruins have featured prominently in the news recently. The collapse of a student PG in Delhi’s Satya Niketan, and the demolition of a 100-year-old mosque in Saharanpur. In one case, the state failed to enforce building regulations – resulting in seven deaths – and in the other, it invoked building regulations to enact explicit celebratory violence in the form of bulldozer politics against Muslims. The two events initially seem to represent opposite failures. Saharanpur appears as a story of an excessively muscular state, and Satya Niketan, as that of an absent one. However, they are better…
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