{"id":35899,"date":"2021-08-25T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/if-i-go-back-i-will-be-killed-the-plight-of-afghan-refugees-in-india"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:26:47","slug":"we-can-never-go-back-taliban-surge-spreads-fear-in-delhis-little-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35899","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can never go back\u2019: Taliban surge spreads fear in Delhi\u2019s \u2018Little Kabul\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many refugees who fled to India decades ago, the Taliban\u2019s ascent in Afghanistan has dashed hopes of them ever being able to return home<\/p>\n<p>They call it little Kabul and it\u2019s not hard to see why. In this lively corner of south Delhi, the streets of Lajpat Nagar are lined with Afghan pharmacies, supermarkets, travel agents and beauty parlours, with Dari Persian signage almost as common as Hindi. Delhi\u2019s residents will trek across the city just for the Afghan restaurants, and for a taste of the thick, steaming ovals of naan bread baked in the numerous Afghan bakeries in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent days, a sombre mood has taken over this usually bustling enclave, where thousands of Afghans have settled, some as early as 1979. As Kabul fell to the Taliban last Sunday, many of those who had sought safety in India as refugees feared it sounded the death knell for them ever being able to return home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/if-i-go-back-i-will-be-killed-the-plight-of-afghan-refugees-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many refugees who fled to India decades ago, the Taliban\u2019s ascent in Afghanistan has dashed hopes of them ever being able to return homeThey call it little Kabul and it\u2019s not hard to see why. In this lively corner of south Delhi, the streets of Laj&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,62,447,1282,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-india","category-islam","category-sikhism","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35900,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions\/35900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}