Aesthetic Governance, Mega-Events and the Urban Poor: Beautification, Visibility and the Making of a ‘World-Class’ Delhi – Sanya Sharma
Introduction When a city prepares to receive the world, what happens to those who do not fit the image it…
Mandai Metro Station: Inclusion by Exclusion – Soumya Khandate
At Pune’s Mahatma Phule Mandai, vendors of vegetables, flowers, bangles and bamboo have spent generations building their trade. Then the…
The City that Never Knows Your Name: Loneliness in Urban Bangladesh – Mst. Fahima Akter Rima
There is a particular type of quiet that determines you in a crowd. Not the quiet of an empty room,…
Sakrain and the Social Life of Old Dhaka’s Rooftops – Anjuman Ara
On a winter afternoon in Old Dhaka, the sky slowly changes its character. What begins as a quiet blue space…
Beyond the Interface: Reimagining Digital Kinship and Collaborative Courtship in Urban India – Ashoo Asif
The Digital Reinvention of Alliance The landscape of marital alliances in the National Capital Region (Delhi-NCR) is undergoing a profound…
Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything by Ravikant Kisana (2025): A Review by Swapnil Sreemani
Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything- the title of Ravikant Kisana’s 2025 book (published by Ebury books),…
The Politics of Splintered Urbanism – Tasneem Khan
Space No centre, no above, no below Ceaselessly devouring and engendering itself Whirlpool space (‘Spaces’, Octavio Paz) The recent…
Shifting Landscapes: Educational and Urban Transformation in India edited by Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, Shivali Tukdeo and Indra Sengupta (2025): A Review by Shadab Anis
Shifting Landscapes: Educational and Urban Transformation in India (Cambridge University Press, 2025) edited by Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, Shivali…
Understanding Positionality of the Dalit Female Researcher in Urban Fieldwork – Priyanka Mokale
Positionality plays a crucial role in research and varies over time. Convincing and demonstrating your social identity as a researcher…