Tag: Urban Ecology
The Endless Battles of Children with Breathing Difficulties in Bengaluru
The voices of patients and caregivers ring loud and clear: worsening air quality in parts of the city is directly affecting the quality of life that our children can enjoy.
One Health: The Need for Intersections Between Human, Animal and Environmental...
This is an integrated approach to healthcare that can be adopted as a preventive measure against zoonotic diseases. But will One Health find its ground in India, or become yet another underexplored idea?
Damaged, Desolate & Dirty: What Rehabilitation Looks Like for Khori’s Residents
Rehabilitation for those citizens evicted from Khori Gaon still remains a distant dream.
The Hits and Misses of the Pusa Capsule, the Delhi Government’s...
As the Delhi Government pushes the Pusa decomposer as a successful alternative to stubble burning, New Delhi's farmers highlight its hits and misses.
How Durga Puja in Kolkata Can Serve as a Site for...
One cannot undermine the power of cultural phenomena for addressing audiences that most forms of messaging cannot capture.
In Pedestrian-Heavy Patna, Crores are Being Invested in Road and Metro...
There has been a phenomenal growth in the number of metro rail projects across Indian cities in the last decade, despite hard evidence that...
Finding Delhi’s “Encroachers”: The Lal Dora Investigation
Aside from low-income "encroachers" of common land, there are much larger players in Delhi who must also share the blame of worsening Delhi’s land scarcity.
Can Land Consolidation Prevent Encroachment and Evictions in Delhi’s Lal Dora...
In the absence of the implementation of land consolidation laws, at lease 40 of Delhi's lal dora villages could face evictions for 'encroachment'.
Stories from Beggar’s Home: How the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act...
To address the issue of begging in India justly, a new government vocabulary and responsibility surrounding destitution needs to be developed.
Unravelling Pune’s COVID-19 Migrant Crisis: History Speaks
As Pune’s boundaries become more fluid, ‘Puneris’—a historically nuanced descriptor that includes migrant groups—are diversifying too.
