Our Folks Had Fields Here

I lived in Delhi for several years, fifteen minutes by tuk-tuk from the Majnu Ka Tilla area. On this small piece of land between the Ring Road and the Yamuna River, the Indian government allowed Tibetan refugees to build a refugee camp in the 1960s. While wandering around Majnuka, I also came to a strip of fields between the river and the Tibetan colony. 

Pollution Diaries

„The water is always very dirty. Whenever I bathe, my skin itches. There are a lot of broken statues of Hindu goddesses in the river.“
May 2019, Yamuna river, Delhi

Pollution Diaries is a collectively written text, composed of posts from a WhatsApp group that was active from May 2019 to April 2020.