Visitors will see clean New Delhi streets ornamented with hundreds of thousands flowers. What they will not see are the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced.

The annual summit of the Group of 20 economies is the largest gathering of world leaders ever in New Delhi, with attendees including President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and others.

They will be greeted by some of the cleanest streets New Delhi has seen, ornamented by hundreds of thousands of lush flowers potted on freshly painted pavements. What they will not see are the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, or the slums that have been flattened or obscured by temporary fences bearing the G20 summit’s logo and photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Modi’s government hopes the beautification project will help showcase the best of what the world’s most populous country has to offer, further cementing its position on the global stage.

Anything that might disrupt that effort is unwelcome.

  • downpunxx@kbin.social
    27·
    1 year ago

    As is the custom prior to all G20’s that have ever been held anywhere, bulldoze the homeless and get them out of the way, must make it looks spiffy don’t ya know

    • And009@reddthat.com
      12·
      1 year ago

      No one is speaking of stray dogs… They’ve been rounded up and dumped into a closed area with no proper food, water or shelter.

      They’re removing everything that makes the country ‘look’ poor. And also making shit shittier in the process.

  • magnetosphere @beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Woah, woah, woah. Yes, the G20 is basically the Legion of Doom (if it was made entirely of Lex Luthor clones), but they usually at least try to slap a smiley face on their atrocities. Bulldozing homes is a little too on the nose, isn’t it, Modi?

    Authorities say they have also deployed several dozen people to mimic the sounds made by langurs so that the rhesus monkeys will be further convinced the cardboard animals are real.

    So… they hired people to walk around making langur noises? I want a detailed story specifically about this job. First, though, I need to hit Wikipedia and find out what a langur is.

    Edit: Oh, it’s this.

  • _lemmy_07@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    Illegal enforcement is prevalent in Old and New Delhi. This happened during CWG, happening during G20 and will happen when Delhi hosts the next big event. All the “homes” will come back and demolished again, it’s a cycle.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    An army of government workers is rounding up stray dogs, scaring away hungry monkeys — and evicting some of New Delhi’s poorest residents by bulldozing their dwellings.

    The annual summit of the Group of 20 economies is the largest gathering of world leaders ever in New Delhi, with attendees including President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and others.

    What they will not see are the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, or the slums that have been flattened or obscured by temporary fences bearing the G20 summit’s logo and photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    From his designated spot in Connaught Place, a business district in the heart of New Delhi, motorcades could be seen passing by every few minutes this week as droves of arriving diplomats headed to nearby luxury hotels.

    Authorities say they have also deployed several dozen people to mimic the sounds made by langurs so that the rhesus monkeys will be further convinced the cardboard animals are real.

    According to a July report by Concerned Citizens Collective, a rights group, almost 300,000 street food vendors, cigarette sellers, shoe polishers and others have been displaced from neighborhoods where the visiting diplomats might see them.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    As is tradition for G20 summits. Next they’ll be kettling protesters and sending in agent provacateurs like the police in Toronto when Canada hosted it.

  • Armen12@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    “White Westerners when people of color actually want to be a part of the world”

    I expected better from NBC, not this racist garbage that reeks of Trumpism

    • Joyboy@lemmy.ml
      14·
      1 year ago

      These houses were there for several years without a problem, paying utilities and housing poor children and women, suddenly they are illegal because someone wants to use this opportunity for their own disgusting motives. While we’re discussing G20, you know what’s really ironic, it’s that in a country where 80% of the population would die of hunger if not fed by public welfare. They are serving delegates of foreign countries in utensils made up of gold and silver.

    • Redhotkurt@kbin.social
      121·
      1 year ago

      *illeagal home . weird they always left the important part

      Well, that changes everything. You know what, they should just shoot them!! They aren’t human anyway.

      /s

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

      Have the courts found them to be illegal? There is a procedure to be followed for demolishing illegal encroachments. Demolitions of ‘illegal’ houses have recently been stopped by if I remember correctly the Punjab High Court.

        • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          1 year ago

          those house were illeagal

          First, the word is ‘illegal’. Second, the houses are only illegal if a court has found them to be encroaching on public property. Third, even if they are illegal, the owners have to first be served notice to vacate. (It appears they were not.)

          Also I mentioned the Punjab HC’s verdict because in India the judgement of a High Court or the Supreme Court establishes a legal precedent that applies across the entire country.