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Dnyaneshwari Burghate

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Housing rights: Mill workers continue struggle for a roof

Forty years and counting – that’s how long the mill workers in Mumbai have been fighting for their dues. The mill strike in 1982 was for bonus and wage hikes, but it eventually turned into a historic struggle for housing.…
By Dnyaneshwari BurghateSeptember 9, 2022
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By leaves we live: Finding Patrick Geddes in Mumbai’s Aarey

As trees are cut and trimmed in the lush green expanse of the Aarey forest for the Metro car shed paving the way for more construction, it marks yet another rupture in the relationship between people and nature which informed…
By Jashvitha Dhagey and Dnyaneshwari BurghateAugust 26, 2022
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The rural in the urban: Warli women of Mumbai’s National Park

The women of the Warli tribe living in the protected forest, the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, are a unique lot negotiating their pastoral lives with the demands of India’s commercial capital. They have seen their lives and livelihoods…
By Jashvitha Dhagey and Dnyaneshwari BurghateJuly 29, 2022
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Walk through Mumbai’s oldest dock, meet its fishing community

At the 147-year-old Sassoon Dock, at the very tip of Mumbai, the organised mess and noisy routine involves thousands of people who live off fishing activities. The morning drill, from 3.30am to 10am, starts from catching fish to selling and…
By Dnyaneshwari Burghate and Jashvitha DhageyJune 17, 2022
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