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Kathputli colony, the slum of Delhi artists (watch pics)

New Delhi: Kathputli is a slum located in West Delhi's Shadipur locality. It is a popular stop in the city for foreign journalists and amateur photographers.It came into existence in 1970 when  a handful of



This colony  may well have been the inspiration for the “magician's ghetto” in Salman Rushdie's “Midnight's Children”.

With its narrow streets and narrower alleys, this colony is among the Delhi government's first experiments in the so-called in situ development strategy under which residents of jhuggi jhopdi clusters transition to temporary housing while the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) reconstructs the settlment, and then shifts the slum-dwellers back onto the original plot and into improved housing.

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