In Gurugram, civic clean-up drives have become a performance art that begins with a flurry of press releases, photo ops and promises, and ends two days later in the same familiar chaos of dust, dumps and denial. Illegally dumped garbage near Sector 51 in Gurugram as of July 2025. (Parveen Kumar/HT) Every few weeks, senior […]
The story began, as many in Gurugram do, with a drive to Gadoli near the Dwarka Expressway. It was meant to be a routine civic assignment, to report on broken roads and poor connectivity and residents’ woes. But as the car jolted over potholes and dust thickened the air, it became clear that this was […]
