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.…
Nearly 168 million women do informal work in India’s cities as street vendors, domestic workers, construction labourers, home-based workers, waste pickers, but most have no contracts or safety nets. They…
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 Cities shadows Zomato delivery rider, Lata, on Delhi’s…
The Bhilai Township, built across 16 sectors to house workers of independent India’s first major steel plant, had nearly 65,000 in the 1980s but now lies abandoned. The structural shift…
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…
Nearly 168 million women do informal work in India’s cities as street vendors, domestic workers, construction labourers, home-based workers, waste pickers, but most have no contracts or safety nets. They carry an unequal burden, often higher than that of men…
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 Cities shadows Zomato delivery rider, Lata, on Delhi’s roads to map their lives. The earnings are as little…
The Bhilai Township, built across 16 sectors to house workers of independent India’s first major steel plant, had nearly 65,000 in the 1980s but now lies abandoned. The structural shift from permanent employment to contractual labour has meant a shift…
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…
Nearly 168 million women do informal work in India’s cities as street vendors, domestic workers, construction labourers, home-based workers, waste pickers, but most have no contracts or safety nets. They carry an unequal burden, often higher than that of men…
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 Cities shadows Zomato delivery rider, Lata, on Delhi’s roads to map their lives. The earnings are as little…
The Bhilai Township, built across 16 sectors to house workers of independent India’s first major steel plant, had nearly 65,000 in the 1980s but now lies abandoned. The structural shift from permanent employment to contractual labour has meant a shift…
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…
For millions of informal workers, life in cities is a perpetual cycle of poverty and precarity with low salaries, inadequate housing, deprivation of basic…
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…
Nearly 168 million women do informal work in India’s cities as street vendors, domestic workers, construction labourers, home-based workers, waste pickers, but most have no contracts or safety nets. They…
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 Cities shadows Zomato delivery rider, Lata, on Delhi’s…
The Bhilai Township, built across 16 sectors to house workers of independent India’s first major steel plant, had nearly 65,000 in the 1980s but now lies abandoned. The structural shift…
Nearly 168 million women do informal work in India’s cities as street vendors, domestic workers, construction labourers, home-based workers, waste pickers, but…
Real estate over ecological restoration, multiplicity of agencies, and Kumbh Mela-driven deadlines are three faultlines of Nashik’s Godavari riverfront development, based on…
Despite the nation-wide protests against the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, it became the law. But protesters were also…
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…
Despite the large numbers who marched at the “No Kings” marches in 2025, research indicates that massive turnouts may not be enough to achieve the goals of a protest movement while boycotts are effective. The “No Kings” movement objected to…
Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests seem to…
Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, is grappling with waste management -- a crisis visible in every overflowing drain, every littered riverbank, and…
The city reveals its quieter cycles beyond kilometres built and capital leveraged, if only we cared to look closely, recognise its biodiversity, restore native ecologies, and invest in nature-based solutions beyond token gestures. There’s birdsong as layered chorus, seasonal blooming…
Real estate over ecological restoration, multiplicity of agencies, and Kumbh Mela-driven deadlines are three faultlines of Nashik’s Godavari riverfront development, based on…
Despite the nation-wide protests against the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, it became the law. But protesters were also…
Nearly 168 million women do informal work in India’s cities as street vendors, domestic workers, construction labourers, home-based workers, waste pickers, but…
Real estate over ecological restoration, multiplicity of agencies, and Kumbh Mela-driven deadlines are three faultlines of Nashik’s Godavari riverfront development, based on…
Despite the nation-wide protests against the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, it became the law. But protesters were also…