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  • Mumbai’s Sunday Streets initiative could help residents reimagine safer, accessible public spaces

    Mumbai’s Sunday Streets initiative could help residents reimagine safer, accessible public spaces

    Akhila Suri Tanushree Venkatraman
    · May 08, 2022 · 11:30 am
  • What explains the push to rename schools, colleges and roads in Jammu and Kashmir?

    What explains the push to rename schools, colleges and roads in Jammu and Kashmir?

    Safwat Zargar
    · Nov 27, 2021 · 06:30 am
  • Should you be bothered about which TV news channels play at public spaces like airports?

    Should you be bothered about which TV news channels play at public spaces like airports?

    Frank Waddell, The Conversation
    · Sep 17, 2018 · 07:30 pm
  • Gurugram namaaz row is part of the larger debate about good illegality vs bad encroachment

    Gurugram namaaz row is part of the larger debate about good illegality vs bad encroachment

    Sanjay Srivastava
    · May 12, 2018 · 08:00 am
  • HDFC spikes: Mumbai’s tony Pali Hill also uses hostile design to deter workers, hawkers from sitting

    HDFC spikes: Mumbai’s tony Pali Hill also uses hostile design to deter workers, hawkers from sitting

    Vidyadhar Date
    · Apr 01, 2018 · 10:30 am
  • This film suggests a way women can help one another when harassed on the streets

    This film suggests a way women can help one another when harassed on the streets

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 17, 2018 · 08:00 pm
  • Why a Faridabad businessman joined a global army of guerrilla gardeners – and you should too

    Why a Faridabad businessman joined a global army of guerrilla gardeners – and you should too

    Selina Sen
    · Jul 22, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • From Snapchat filters to women's loos: How discrimination is often etched into design

    From Snapchat filters to women's loos: How discrimination is often etched into design

    Lena Groeger, ProPublica
    · Sep 12, 2016 · 09:30 pm
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    'Cycle chalao, patriarchy dubao': Taking to Karachi's streets without the company of men

    Sadia Khatri
    · Apr 02, 2016 · 08:30 pm
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    World Disability Day: Watch how differently enabled people are denied access to public spaces and services

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