•Seema Chishti: Your wife is from Mumbai and so you have a relationship with Mumbai as well. There is always a mental profile for the people from other metropolitan cities. What are your reflections on the people that make Delhi?

Sam Miller: I feel Delhi as a migrant city more than any other city. One of the elements of the migration is that people think they think they are here for few years and I'm going to go back. I am beginning to detect a change in that. The city has reached such a size and has attracted many people who begin seeking favours from the government like in the old days. It is beginning to build its own loyalty. One major difference that will play out for Delhi as against other cities is that it has a proper government of its own. People have a control over the city, it's their city and it's their fault if it does not work. In Mumbai and Kolkata, they don't. So Delhi has opportunity for it, it is more unitary than any other city. There has not been loyalty in Delhi because it has been a city of migrants; it has been decimated so many times. In 1857 and also during the partition this was a city that was deeply traumatized so many times. There were refugee camps around Purana Qila and a large unwilling population from Pakistan. So it's also been a city which has been forced on people or taken away from some.

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