Tikender Singh Panwar The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the hollowness of the urban development trajectory in India. Since the last few decades, especially after the economic reforms in the 1990s, the city development models have been for-profit maximisation through privatisation…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar The intense prevalence of political atmosphere in informal settlements for availing improved resources for crucial developmental outcomes has always been an intriguing topic. To address the rising challenges and concerns of urban slums, The Center for…
Amita Singh Delhi has been waterlogged again after less than an hour of a downpour. Kerala, Assam, and Bihar are flooded too and Mumbai, like many other cities, continues to pay the price for illegal constructions. Ironically, the most beautiful…
Indira Khurana Depending on the geography and ecology, the water-related impacts of climate change are experienced in different ways. What is common is the increase in extreme weather events, all leading to deepening poverty; dwindling of livelihood opportunities; disrupted access…
Arjun Kumar, Nishi Verma सेंटर फॉर ह्यूमन डिग्निटी एंड डेवलपमेंट, आईएमपीआरआई इम्पैक्ट एंड पॉलिसी रिसर्च इंस्टीट्यूट, नई दिल्ली और परमार्थ समाज सेवी संस्थान, झांसी के परस्पर सहयोग द्वारा एक विशेष वार्ता हेतु “गांधी का ग्राम स्वराज्य का दृष्टिकोण भारतीय गांवों…
There are subtle but what seem like long-term shifts in how politics is being pursued and constructed in the “New India” after 2014. The most notable of these is that the old binary of secular-versus-communal does not easily help identify political parties through their social agendas. Secular parties today are drawing leaders from the BJP and there is little hesitation in making them the party face in a region. The latest is Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was with the BJP but is now the Pradesh Congress Committee chief of Punjab. There are many other instances like his in Maharashtra, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.