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Time for intolerence: Mumbai residents must stop being so apathetic about their city’s neglect

For ordinary Mumbaikars, just walking in their neighbourhoods or commuting to work is a terrible ordeal.

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· Mar 16, 2019 · 08:00 am
HDFC spikes: Mumbai’s tony Pali Hill also uses hostile design to deter workers, hawkers from sitting

Metal barbs outside the bank’s Fort branch to keep away homeless people weren’t an exception. India’s elite use many strategies to fend off the marginalised.

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· Apr 01, 2018 · 10:30 am
Sadism on the tracks: In Mumbai, commuters are treated as statistics, not humans

On the city’s train system, customers are like cattle, whose movements are sought to be confined and controlled.

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· Oct 01, 2017 · 10:30 am

By removing speed breakers, pedestrians are once again being told to take a hike

The government is trying to protect motorists, but why is it so callous when it comes to the lives of pedestrians?

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· Apr 27, 2016 · 04:30 pm