Sujay Jha
Columnist
-
Opinion | India's 'Swacch' Drive Has A Mountain-Sized Blindspot
Every morning in east Delhi, trucks climb a hill that was never meant to exist. Ghazipur began taking the city's waste in 1984 and was supposed to stop at about 40 metres. A court-appointed commissioner who visited in March 2025 found it at roughly 60 metres, cracked on top, and venting methane. Fires break out regularly. Three decades of cleanline...
