Two plastic bags hang from a broken door in Mohammad Irfan’s building in Delhi’s Shiv Vihar. The door once separated his living quarters from his grocery shop. Both were vandalised, burned and looted during the Delhi riots in February 2020. While he hasn’t been able to repair the door since then, it’s far from being the only tangible reminder of the violence two years ago.
The two plastic bags are crammed with photographs, both black-and-white and in colour, as well as copies of FIRs, police statements and application forms. It’s a documentation of his life since that day in February, a chronicle of his journey to secure Rs 1 lakh as compensation from the government.
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