India, June 8 -- It is gone now; Devli's first pucca house, the one that stood near the old chaupal, and the one that older residents still describe in the present even though it no longer exists. Devli is not easy to find if you do not already know it. It sits between Sangam Vihar and Sainik Farms in south Delhi, compressed between two neighbourhoods wildly different from each other - one a vast unauthorised colony of working people, the other also an unauthorised colony but categorised as "affluent" and is a forested enclave of large houses and concrete lanes. Between them, almost as an afterthought of the city's expansion, Devli continues to exist. The village has been absorbing Delhi's pressure for decades without ever quite becoming De...