Beyond Kolkata Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination

Beyond Kolkata Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination

In exploring the dynamics of the emergence of New Town in Rajarhat the book shows how the dystopian imagination of a hi tech utopian city for the opulent and the violence unleashed to realize it have led to the loss of lands and livelihoods of people demise of an entire pre existing suburban economy connected with the bustling metropolis of Kolkata and ecological despoliation.