Mission Delhi – Mohmu, New Palam Vihar Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - March 16, 2022March 16, 20220 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The land is sprawled across acres of openness, punctuated with scrubby bushes and stand-alone houses. Far away, the grey multi-storeyed buildings look like scarecrows. On the other side, an expressway is coming up, its elevated concrete unspooling atop an older artery. Amid these empty expanses of Gurgaon’s New Palam Vihar in the Greater Delhi Region, an elderly man is sitting on a low brick wall that clearly demarcates a privately owned plot of real estate. If this were a painting, the artist could have guiltily rendered this figure by a single dot of the brush. In his 60s, Mohmu, originally a farmer, looks about the dusty scenery and