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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…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

Despite the large numbers who marched at the “No Kings” marches in 2025, research indicates that massive turnouts may not…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests…

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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 momentum. Despite sustained efforts through demonstrations, legal action,…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice to demand rights and justice. Fisherfolk, Adivasis and farmers from…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

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…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests seem to be thinning out in cities across India but…

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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 momentum. Despite sustained efforts through demonstrations, legal action, and digital campaigns, authorities have largely gone ahead with projects,…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice to demand rights and justice. Fisherfolk, Adivasis and farmers from Palghar intensified their protest against the proposed Vadhavan port, an…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

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…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests seem to be thinning out in cities across India but it may have more to do with how the governments,…

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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 momentum. Despite sustained efforts through demonstrations, legal action, and digital campaigns, authorities have largely gone ahead with projects,…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice to demand rights and justice. Fisherfolk, Adivasis and farmers from Palghar intensified their protest against the proposed Vadhavan port, an…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

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…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests seem to be thinning out in cities across India but it may have more to do with how the governments,…

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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 momentum. Despite sustained efforts through demonstrations,…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

Despite the large numbers who marched at the “No Kings” marches in 2025, research indicates that massive turnouts may not…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests…

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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 momentum. Despite…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

Despite the large numbers who marched at the “No Kings” marches in 2025, research indicates that massive turnouts may not…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests…

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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 momentum. Despite sustained efforts through demonstrations, legal action, and digital campaigns, authorities have largely gone ahead with projects,…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice to demand rights and justice. Fisherfolk, Adivasis and farmers from…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

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…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests seem to be thinning out in cities across India but…

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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…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice to demand…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

Despite the large numbers who marched at the “No Kings” marches in 2025, research indicates that massive turnouts may not be enough…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests seem to…

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Mumbai, our city, is being snatched from us

Through the decades of 1970-80s and till the mid-90s, Bombay was the arena for associations, unions, collectives and movements for people’s rights,…

Bengaluru re-imagined through its incredible water network

Bengaluru’s water woes are not new but, this letter to the city by a hardcore Bengalurean and water expert, is a tender…

Let’s transform Kolkata into a care-based feminist city

In its bid to ‘develop’ into a modern metropolis, the city’s everyday rhythms are fading. Kolkata must hold on to its essence…

Clean air and water in Thrissur. Breaking barriers in Chennai

Drawing a circle from Thrissur to Chennai, Mumbai, and back to Thrissur, this multi-city letter weighs in to reminisce what used to…

Dehradun, we dream a future without air purifiers and ailments

Two summers ago, when the temperature of Dehradun touched 47 degrees Celsius, many realised the price of sacrificing trees for development and…

Saving Tinsukia from its quest for ‘development’

An old British town that grew alongside modest industries has shown enough furious momentum to be considered for India’s Smart Cities Mission…

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The Musi – then and now

Delhi owes the Yamuna an ecologically-sound river-led city plan

‘The Yamuna is a living and breathing thing. We are systematically killing it’

The Yamuna: Memoir of
a dying river

‘The government got votes from here, now claims the settlement is illegal’

The relentless fighters who cycle, campaign and rally to save Yamuna

Why we should worry about the narrative of development

Bengaluru: A step forward or two steps backslide in urban governance?

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New battle in Panipat as refinery workers rise

Nearly 30,000 workers of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited refinery in Panipat, among India’s largest refineries, went on a sit-in protest in February. They demanded the global standard…

Persistent ecological assault turns susegad Goans into
angry protesters

Goans have seen their fields and orchards turned into commercial areas. The amendment Section 39A in the Town and Country Planning Act…

An open letter to the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, is grappling with waste management -- a crisis visible in every overflowing drain, every littered riverbank, and…

‘There comes a tipping point when people say enough
is enough’

In the past few years, Dehradun went from being a salubrious hill city to having summer temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, floods…

Delhi like the dhau: A city of co-existence and kinship

The city reveals its quieter cycles beyond kilometres built and capital leveraged, if only we cared to look closely, recognise its biodiversity,…

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New battle in Panipat as refinery workers rise

Nearly 30,000 workers of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited refinery in Panipat, among India’s largest refineries, went on a sit-in protest in February. They…

Persistent ecological assault turns susegad Goans into
angry protesters

Goans have seen their fields and orchards turned into commercial areas. The amendment Section 39A in the Town and Country Planning Act…

An open letter to the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, is grappling with waste management -- a crisis visible in every overflowing drain, every littered riverbank, and…

‘There comes a tipping point when people say enough
is enough’

In the past few years, Dehradun went from being a salubrious hill city to having summer temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, floods…

Delhi like the dhau: A city of co-existence and kinship

The city reveals its quieter cycles beyond kilometres built and capital leveraged, if only we cared to look closely, recognise its biodiversity,…

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The Musi – then and now

Cover photo: Musi River at Hyderabad/ Wikimedia Commons

Delhi owes the Yamuna an ecologically-sound river-led city plan

The deterioration and shrinking of the Yamuna in Delhi have worsened over the decades despite thousands of crores spent. Constructions on its…

‘The Yamuna is a living and breathing thing. We are systematically killing it’

Although India’s vision of a river was historically been influenced by the British, urban plans in contemporary India too do not have…

The Yamuna: Memoir of
a dying river

Nikeita Saraf, a Thane-based architect and urban practitioner, works as illustrator and writer with Question of Cities. Through her academic years…

‘The government got votes from here, now claims the settlement is illegal’

What happens when a river’s relationships with people closest to it are broken and all talk of the river is reduced to…

The relentless fighters who cycle, campaign and rally to save Yamuna

Pankaj Kumar quit his job to work 24x7 for a clean Yamuna. Vikrant Tongad decided he would not be a silent spectator…

Why we should worry about the narrative of development

Mumbai voted to send 227 corporators to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation but the election campaign did not pivot on governance. Instead, it…

Bengaluru: A step forward or two steps backslide in urban governance?

Amid opposition, Bengaluru’s municipal corporation was split into five, ostensibly to improve service delivery and expedite development. However, significant city-making powers – planning, executing development projects, controlling finance – lie with their command centre, the Greater Bengaluru Authority, ruled by…

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Mumbai, our city, is being snatched from us

Through the decades of 1970-80s and till the mid-90s, Bombay was the arena for associations, unions, collectives and movements for people’s rights,…

Bengaluru re-imagined through its incredible water network

Bengaluru’s water woes are not new but, this letter to the city by a hardcore Bengalurean and water expert, is a tender…

Let’s transform Kolkata into a care-based feminist city

In its bid to ‘develop’ into a modern metropolis, the city’s everyday rhythms are fading. Kolkata must hold on to its essence…

Clean air and water in Thrissur. Breaking barriers in Chennai

Drawing a circle from Thrissur to Chennai, Mumbai, and back to Thrissur, this multi-city letter weighs in to reminisce what used to…

Dehradun, we dream a future without air purifiers and ailments

Two summers ago, when the temperature of Dehradun touched 47 degrees Celsius, many realised the price of sacrificing trees for development and…

Saving Tinsukia from its quest for ‘development’

An old British town that grew alongside modest industries has shown enough furious momentum to be considered for India’s Smart Cities Mission…

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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…

Determined voices continue to fight for rights, land, ecology

Against all odds, average Indians are pushing back against projects that threaten their livelihoods and environment, or raise their voice to demand…

Millions are protesting but boycotts are key to change policies

Despite the large numbers who marched at the “No Kings” marches in 2025, research indicates that massive turnouts may not be enough…

Halla bol: Why protests are intrinsic to city-making

Resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. Protests seem to…

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The relentless fighters who cycle, campaign and rally to save Yamuna

Why we should worry about the narrative of development

Bengaluru: A step forward or two steps backslide in urban governance?

Split or reunified, Delhi’s municipal corporation has poor governance, low finances

‘Without money, municipal bodies cannot fulfil their role or deliver the mandate given to them’

Mumbai Metropolitan Region: The facts and figures after elections

QoC salutes Dr Madhav Gadgil

The Aravallis at the crossroads: Facts, fallout, and the fight

Following the arc from the Aravallis to Delhi’s air

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Mumbai, our city, is being snatched from us

Through the decades of 1970-80s and till the mid-90s, Bombay was the arena for associations, unions, collectives and movements for people’s rights,…

Bengaluru re-imagined through its incredible water network

Bengaluru’s water woes are not new but, this letter to the city by a hardcore Bengalurean and water expert, is a tender…

Let’s transform Kolkata into a care-based feminist city

In its bid to ‘develop’ into a modern metropolis, the city’s everyday rhythms are fading. Kolkata must hold on to its essence…

Clean air and water in Thrissur. Breaking barriers in Chennai

Drawing a circle from Thrissur to Chennai, Mumbai, and back to Thrissur, this multi-city letter weighs in to reminisce what used to…

Dehradun, we dream a future without air purifiers and ailments

Two summers ago, when the temperature of Dehradun touched 47 degrees Celsius, many realised the price of sacrificing trees for development and…

Saving Tinsukia from its quest for ‘development’

An old British town that grew alongside modest industries has shown enough furious momentum to be considered for India’s Smart Cities Mission…

Masonry - Full Width - 4 Columns - Page 6

The Musi – then and now

Delhi owes the Yamuna an ecologically-sound river-led city plan

‘The Yamuna is a living and breathing thing. We are systematically killing it’

The Yamuna: Memoir of
a dying river

‘The government got votes from here, now claims the settlement is illegal’

The relentless fighters who cycle, campaign and rally to save Yamuna

Why we should worry about the narrative of development

Bengaluru: A step forward or two steps backslide in urban governance?