Right to the City - Question of Cities

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 of basic amenities, and spatial and social marginalisation. The burgeoning inequality in cities underscore the harsh truth that…

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 –…

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…

People vs people: How to read protests and fissures

Protests have been happening but all protests are not equal; some seem more legitimate, have more impact, than others. Which people are…

How India’s cities are making protests invisible

Across Indian cities, protests are being confined to designated sites with strict rules, making them easy to be ignored and disengaging protesters from the public as well as governments. In Delhi, Jantar Mantar is now the designated protest site –…

Why must trans people prove themselves to the
city, every day?

Despite the nation-wide protests against the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, it became the law. But protesters were also…

Mumbai protests for ecology intensify but disconnected

Across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, people’s protests to protect mangroves, wetlands, forests, and other fragile ecosystems have multiplied as infrastructure projects gather…