His family quelled Arjun’s continuing concerns—what if you run out of water; what if there are riots?—with a weekly video call, telling him of new life in “New” Delhi, making it sound just fine. To a city of chaos, what’s one more drop of chaos? It doesn’t hurt that so much of the city is made up of interwoven parts. There are the massive compounds of the wealthy that have everything they need inside, and the labyrinthine alleys and slums with walls bleeding into each other, so that entire neighborhoods move together and stay together.
