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A new film and book on the slum demolitions in Yamuna Pushta by writer, director, Ruzbeh Barucha www.yamunagentlyweeps.com Yamuna Gently Weeps is a film on the Yamuna Pushta slum demolitions, written and directed by journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker, Ruzbeh N Bharucha. Yamuna Pushta in Delhi was one of the oldest and largest slums inIndia. In reality, a chain of 22 small slums, located on athree-kilometre stretch along the Yamuna River, the settlement was home to 40,000 families, which housed more than 1,50,000 people and was in existence for decades. Yamuna Pushta was virtually a township, where a world within aworld existed. In the guise of resettlement, encroachment, pollution and beautification of the city, in early 2004, in a matter of weeks,40,000 homes were demolished, without any rehabilitation plan andthe past, present, future of 1,50,000 people were bulldozed to the ground. Neither the Judiciary, those in power nor the implementing agencies, had heard of the conce