India, April 30 -- An archive is not always a grand building in the capital's heart, stocked with musty documents. It can be a photographer's lifework, an anthropologist's Instagram handle, or even a neighbourhood directory of peoples and businesses. Take Portrait of a Colony, a booklet pulled from a garbage heap some weeks ago. Intended for residents of a Delhi locality, the 1982 publication is a rare record of a city neighbourhood. One aspect of the booklet was covered here in the story titled "Krishna Chopra, a "housewife"; Moley Fernandes, a "crooner." This is the concluding part.

Labelled the "Directory of Residents of Jangpura Extension, Link Road and Birbal Road," the booklet presents the place as a kissa-kahani of memory, displac...