Addressing Climate Change Impact on Informal Workers
On this May Day, there is an urgent need to recognise the organic links between workers’ rights and climate change, and build worker-centred pathways for climate-just transitions.
Category Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies
Understanding Urban Policy Drift in 2024 Election Manifestos
Nearly 50% of Indian population lives in the cities, for they are hub of opportunities and significant in country's development trajectory. Yet, the urban landscape remains a blank spot in our political discourse.
Caste, Privatization, and Environmental Degradation: Reassessing India’s Swachh Bharat Mission
The Swachh Bharat Mission tried to create a narrative that sanitation is everyone’s job. Instead, it has ended up continuing the same old caste practices.
Manifesto Guarantee Deconstructed
As can be expected, these go unmentioned in the manifesto – after all the manifesto is supposed to create a feel good factor in the nation. The end result of 'Modi’s guarantee’ could be contrary to the promises.
A Tale of Two Centuries: Himachal Pradesh’s Development Journey and Future Imperatives
For centuries, the region now known as Himachal Pradesh, nestled in the Himalayas, and its people were subjects of diverse princely states, ethnographic migrations, and colonial rule under the British.
Cityscapes in Flux: The Evolving Dynamics of Urbanization
The old understanding that a city is considered to be the centre of enlightenment, workplace, and habitat is being challenged,
Nehru’s Vision and Strategies for a Newly Independent India
When Jawaharlal Nehru became prime minister, there was euphoria across India on gaining independence, but it was also a time of crisis. A long and devastating colonial subjugation was ending.