Opinion | Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh Is Not Just Saffron, But A Deep Shade Of Green Too

The state’s attempt to future-proof its development model could become a case study for overpopulated regions the world over

Muddy and polluted Ganga, unclean cities with millions milling around, dirt rising from broken roads, and a general absence of greenery—that had been the stereotype for Uttar Pradesh.

If William Dalrymple wrote In The Age of Kali, “The villages of the cow belt were sinking under their own weight… rivers of sewage, mountains of garbage, and a population exploding beyond control", anglophile Pankaj Mishra held his nose about towns of UP in his Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: “Filthy, overcrowded, and decaying… where the air is thick with dust and the smell of open drains, and the sheer weight of numbers makes any progress impossible."

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For decades, reality in UP had given legitimacy to this colonial condescension. The state has long been seen as environmentally........

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