it is clear that the Delhi Master Plan has been written by lobbies of traders that don't want their commercial establishments operating out of residential areas to be sealed, as ordered by the Supreme Court. A citizens' outfit has already gone to the court against the plan. The court is looking into the plan now. There are several critiques of the government's shameless populism. Nobody is talking about the process through which commercial establishments came up in residential areas. What happened is eerily simple: people had the money to pay regulators to look the other way while they constructed illegally. There is no reason to believe that any master plan