Right to the City - Question of Cities

How Mumbai’s slums won the battle for access to water

Around 1,000 of the 1,400 families in Ganpat Patil Nagar in Mumbai’s Borivali received piped water in 2021, some 23 years after struggling without it and paying exorbitantly to access water from non-municipal sources including cycling for kilometres at night.…

Ten reports on heat, heat risks and women, and water challenges

As most cities in India record temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, the warning signs of climate change cannot be ignored. Over the…

Night heat: The silent crisis of summer for the marginalised

Rising night temperatures are playing havoc with people’s lives in cities. In Delhi’s Seemapuri, a colony of waste pickers, unusually warm nights…

Mapping heat stress shows Delhi street vendors’ precarity

Street vendors, indispensable to cities but structurally excluded from urban planning, infrastructure and legal protections, are forced to deal with continuous, unavoidable…

The mall view: Cities, workers and the crisis of citizenship

For millions of informal workers, life in cities is a perpetual cycle of poverty and precarity with low salaries, inadequate housing, deprivation…

Unfair, unjust work: The
nine-hour ordeal of a woman delivery rider

In the estimated 7.7 million workers in the gig economy in 2020-21, women make between 10-28 percent of the workforce. Question of…

Remember Bhilai? The workers’ township now lies abandoned

The Bhilai Township, built across 16 sectors to house workers of independent India’s first major steel plant, had nearly 65,000 in the…

‘People being picked up and cases slapped; who listens
to the poor?’

It has been around three weeks that tens of protesting workers from Manesar and Noida were arrested. Their demands were basic – revision of minimum wages, improved working conditions, double pay for overtime, mandatory weekly offs, medical coverage, and timely…

The great AI debate: Taking all jobs, some jobs or being used as cover for layoffs?

Artificial Intelligence may not be the only factor for the restructuring seen in work and job markets, but it cannot be overlooked…

Musi riverfront project for real estate, sidelines people
and river

Only the first phase of the Musi riverfront development project in Hyderabad will be around Rs 7,000 crore; the total cost is…