Movements - Question of Cities

They fight so that the Aravallis can stand tall

Sheer passion, deep commitment to their land, and raw anger at the daylight robbery of the hills they have called home forever have driven scores of people to gather in small and large numbers across the Aravalli hills and range…

Saving the Aravallis with songs, poems and art

People, including professional artists, have been using every medium at their disposal to draw attention to the Aravallis. While locals across Rajasthan…

‘I have a negative sense of the judiciary; conflicting orders are passed’

An important path to protect ecology and seek environmental justice has been through the courts where, in numerous cases, citizens and lawyers…

‘Protecting SGNP is people’s movement, has always been’

Despite the onerous task of reading through the 400-page draft zonal master plan for the eco-sensitive zone of the Sanjay Gandhi National…

Jaipur must urgently save Dol ka Badh forest – and itself

Dol ka Badh, a crucial green space and buffer zone in the Pink City, which sees high temperatures, is under threat. With…

How children co-created 250 metres of happiness around schools

What started out as a project in one Delhi school to make the area safer for children and meaningful for the community,…

Placing platform workers in the city’s urban imagination

The city is the place of work for millions of platform or gig workers in India who number an astounding 7.7 million…

South Asian domestic worker abuse and activism in New York

This insightful and evocative paper, presented as senior thesis at Columbia University’s Department of History, traces the arc of the exploitation and abuse faced by South Asian domestic workers in the United States, and the building of collective organisations that…

‘Deep flaw or blind spot in Indian environmentalism is that it largely ignored cities’

Cities built at the cost of ecology are becoming uninhabitable and unsustainable. Between the Gandhian perspective which is hostile to city life…

Feminism meets environmentalism but women left out of decision-making

As women, across barriers of caste and class and other social indices, assert themselves, they also touch upon environmental issues that are…