India, Aug. 10 -- Majnu ka Tilla, Chittaranjan Park and Lajpat Nagar are neighbourhoods where houses are islands of culture, building a certain cosmopolitanism in Delhi. These neighbourhoods make me feel proud of my city - a city that always found a place for communities in exile. Tibetan in one, Bengali in another, Afghan in the third, none of it native to Delhi, and all of it now inseparable from the city. This is what an architecture of care looks like in a city of the Global South, where displacement usually hardens into slums or ghettos. Delhi has managed neither, largely because the state allotted land or allowed settlement to continue long enough for people to build, trade, marry and stay. Majnu ka Tilla/New Aruna Nagar settlement da...