ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a gendered perspective on Delhi’s urban future, produced and curated by young women living in its urban peripheries. Using the metaphor of #AnnaJaana [#ComingGoing] as a paradigm for the urban periphery, the chapter argues that the women’s everyday mobility across the home, phone and the city highlight the ambiguities of their lives. Using WhatsApp diary entries of multimedia content (audio recordings, photographs, videos and text messages by women), conversations between the women and researchers as well as observations of the dynamics within the WhatsApp group over a period of six months, the chapter suggests that #AanaJaana highlights the ambiguities of living between digital-territorial exclusions and offers ways to speak back to the city from the margins.