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Reading Delhi Through Its Gates

What survives of a city’s walls tells you who it expected to keep out, and who it forgot to.

Sahil RazaAugust 2026 min read

A wall is a claim about the future. It says that the thing inside is worth the stone, and that the thing outside can be named. Delhi has made that claim more often than most cities, and abandoned it just as often.

The gates that remain are not the important ones. They are simply the ones that stood on roads too useful to demolishWhich is its own kind of historical evidence, if a frustrating one..

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