It has been three years of injustice, erasure and fear for the residents of northeast Delhi. Many continue to live with the scars of the sectarian violence that began on February 22 across multiple Muslim-majority neighbourhoods. Mallika, from Bhagirathi Vihar, watched her husband beaten to death and then burnt. 24-year-old Tavleen Fatima, from Gokulpuri, lost her husband to the violence, just 12 days after marrying him on February 14. Anam from Mustafabad whose brother was killed on his way home from namaz, remembers clearly the last words he said to her before he left home the day he died. Then there is the take of Gulista Shaikh, who spent many restless days following the violence at a survivors' camp at the Eidgah ground in Mustafabad, dreaming of her marriage. She and her family had been displaced from the home in which she had grown up. Both marriages and funerals were common at the time, one of the many contradictions of life in conflict.