Time chips away at walls of middle-class dreams

In the late 1970s and 1980s, flats built by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) symbolised a new promise for middle-class Indians: the first wave of affordable, planned housing in a city that was only beginning its population surge.

- Jasjeev Gandhiok and Jignasa Sinha

But half a century later, these buildings ~ once the bedrock of Delhi's housing story —are creaking under the weight of time.