In Pedestrian-Heavy Patna, Crores are Being Invested in Road and Metro Projects Instead
There has been a phenomenal growth in the number of metro rail projects across Indian cities in the last decade, despite hard evidence that...
Catching Environmental Crime
Environmental justice movements and institutions face hard questions when it comes to accountability: who is actually responsible for environmental crimes? How should they be...
Shrinking Commons Amidst Delhi’s Unplanned Urbanisation
Ram Kumar Roja, 76 years of age, is standing on a ground, bordered by a few trees and a wall. This one acre piece...
What’s in a name? The ‘Odia Kandha’, their OTFD status, and the Forest Rights...
Harbandhao Pradhan was 12 in 1952, which is when the first settlement process took place in his village of Sankhajodi, in Odisha’s Nayagarh district....
Monsoon Mayhem: No Rehabilitation for Evicted Residents of Himachal’s Chetru
Photographs by Yogesh Upadhyay
Come June, the monsoon ventures into the subcontinent and India welcomes it with open arms. But for Najuki and her husband,...
How Can India’s e-Mandi System Benefit Farmers?
Research by Isha Malaviya
Presented & Edited by Sumit Krishna Yadav
As opposed to a traditional mandi system, e-mandis specifically abolish the culture of middlepersons....
Forest Development, but at Whose Cost?
Written by Armaan RM
India became a world-leader in agroforestry when it became the first country to adopt a National Agroforestry Policy, back in 2014....
Are Residential Welfare Associations the Missing Key in Urban Governance Models?
There are a few characteristics becoming increasingly common across Indian cities. A deluge of a couple of hours can end up flooding a city....
Damaged, Desolate & Dirty: What Rehabilitation Looks Like for Khori’s Residents
Rehabilitation for those citizens evicted from Khori Gaon still remains a distant dream.
Intezaar: Ibrahim Ansari’s Story | From Streets to Schools
For the better part of a month, The Bastion Staff travelled to different cities and met so many kids who live off the streets....