Mission Delhi – Parash Ram, Hazrat Nizamuddin East Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - August 25, 2021August 25, 20210 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s Raksha Bandhan festival and Parash Ram is wondering what if he were in his village in Lalitpur, MP, this day. “My sister, Preeti, would have tied rakhi on my wrist.” After a pause, he says—“I’ve a big family but I’m lonely. They are all in the village.” This late afternoon Mr Ram is alone in his Delhi home. It is a roadside camp, in posh Hazrat Nizamuddin East lined with gleaming apartment complexes. Mr Ram’s home is transitory, he informs. A labourer, his address keeps shifting, depending on the assignment he gets from his “thekedar,” the contractor. Currently, he is a “water pump operator.” Pointing to