'We grew up around this historic Delhi mosque - now we have been forced out'

In the heart of Delhi, a short distance from the Indian prime minister's residence, a small mosque stands amid piles of rubble. Its pale walls and pointed arches remain intact, its courtyard still lined with green-and-white tiles.

But the people who gave life to the place are gone.

Mohammad Wasim, 50, points across the rubble to the spot where his house once stood.

"My father was married there, and, decades later, so was my daughter," says Wasim, a driver.

Wasim and his family were among hundreds of people who lived around the mosque in a patchwork of modest homes tucked between military compounds, exclusive clubs and sprawling bungalows in Race Course, one of the Indian capital's wealthiest and most heavily guarded neighbourhoods.