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.
Category Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies
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.
India Ageing Report 2023: Key Insights and Recommendations for Elderly Care
Population ageing has in recent times become a prominent phenomenon in developing nations. With reduced fertility and mortality rates in third-world countries, there has been a rise in the proportion of the older population i.e. 60 years and above.
Charting Urban India’s Budgetary Landscape: Interim Budget 2024 & Viksit Bharat @ 2047
Cities in India are envisioned as engines of growth. Any meaningful long-term vision for India would be incomplete without planning for the cities and quite rightly, urbanization is considered as one of the country’s top developmental challenges.