Turkman Gate

This guide to Turkman Gate in Delhi follows a seventeenth-century Mughal entrance that outlasted empires, and the generations-old neighborhood behind it during the Emergency of the mid-nineteen seventies. You'll hear about Sanjay Gandhi's beautification campaign, the morning in April nineteen seventy-six when bulldozers arrived at these lanes, and the resettlement that followed. Stand at the arch and you're looking at the one thing that stayed.