Urban Futures
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Words and sights: What do Delhi’s present landscapes hold for its future?
Architecture has always served political regimes to mark their presence in the spaces and psyches of people.
Sarover Zaidi
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As Covid-19 puts India’s largest cities under strain, municipalities must rethink finance strategies
Land-based financing tools, property taxation reforms and capital market-based solutions could help cash-strapped municipalities gain fiscal autonomy.
Aparna Raj C & Manav K
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Urban farmers are learning to grow food without soil or natural light
The potential to grow food in small spaces, under any environmental conditions, are offers big advantages.
Silvio Caputo, The Conversation
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Why many young Muslims are leaving India
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‘What’s behind the flag?’: India’s cartoonists prompt a laugh on the country’s 75th Independence Day
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Bilkis Bano gangrape: 11 men sentenced to life imprisonment released from jail
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Romila Thapar: ‘The rights of citizenship have faded’
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Shadow militants: Why a policeman’s killing has shaken a battle-hardened Kashmiri village
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Mumbai citizens cheer order to dump development plan but ask how it can be fixed in 4 months
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis took the decision at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, after weeks of citizens lambasting the draft plan for its numerous errors.
Aarefa Johari
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As government decides future of Mumbai and its docklands, citizen voices go unheard
Committee tasked with suggesting how to redevelop the 1,800-acre stretch considered the public’s suggestions but then consigned them to the ‘afterword of its report’.
Smruti Koppikar
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Exclusive: A peek at government plan to redevelop Mumbai's 1,800-acre docklands
Committee recommends that 60% of the land be utilised for public amenities and open spaces, while 40% will be allocated commercial and residential use.
Smruti Koppikar
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‘An explosion at the diaper station’: Watch journalists ‘report’ on their parenting experiences
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Watch: This 167-year-old steam engine in working condition will soon have a heritage run
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Watch: Kannada film actors have made a new music video for India’s national song ‘Vande Mataram’
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‘Vijayi Vishwa Tiranga Pyara’: 1938 song composed for the freedom movement gets new rendition
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‘We don’t hate for long’: Jawaharlal Nehru on the UK during impromptu press conference in 1953