
“Modi, may you live long,” said Afsana, beating her chest and gritting her teeth. “You have now turned us into Bangladeshis.”
Afsana, a vegetable vendor, is angry and disappointed. Decades ago, her parents migrated to Delhi from Kolkata, settling in Sunder Nagri in Northeast Delhi, hoping to make a living. They shortly moved to Northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, to C Block – which has been Afsana’s home for the last 30 years.