The fight for space in cities like New Delhi is also a quest for new-found authority and power. Is there hidden irony in the fact that the country’s latest anti-terrorist outfit, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), created after the Mumbai attacks in 2008, is to occupy two floors vacated by the corruption-riddled Commonwealth Games organising committee, which has been bundled out of the municipality’s weird concrete tower in the heart of the capital? Other government departments were hungrily eyeing this pie in the sky till they were overruled by the home ministry. The NIA is apparently unable to function properly without a prime location in the city.

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