Tag: cities
Voices: ‘Kannada Kalittayidini’ by Arunita Walia
“I’m learning Kannada” – a better alternative to “Kannada Gothilla” which means “I don’t know Kannada.” My college roommate asked me to learn the phrase “Kannada...
Safetipin: The App that’s making Cities Safer for Women
In a 2018 survey by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, India was named as one of the most dangerous countries for women to live in....
Voices: ‘Hyderabad, Nikal re, mian?’ by Bharath Moro
I am moving cities. In a week’s time, I’ll be saying sayonara to Hyderabad after having lived here for more than 20 years. Sure,...
Changing behaviours to make cities better: Urban planners divulge their secrets
It’s difficult to love a city when it makes you feel like you don’t belong. Cities and people have complex relationships, and are constantly...
Bright Walls, Ugly Truths: 7 Street Artists Transforming Our Cities
From spray painting phone numbers on walls to showcasing artistry at festivals, street artists in India have come a long way; indeed, so has...
Sri Lankan photographer Abdul-Halik Azeez on decolonial thinking and storytelling
Photographer Abdul-Halik Azeez knows how to take a good picture.
Born in Colombo, Halik was a former strategy consultant and journalist for the Sunday...
This online community is driving us down Bangalore’s memory lane
When you walk down DVG Road late in the evening, you are enveloped by the street culture. The lanes are brimming with flower and...
Loitering, Podcasting, Hashtagging: How #GirlsAtDhabas Is Reclaiming Public Spaces
For women, a world in which taking a walk alone at 2 A.M, or frequenting public spaces occupied by men, is still by large,...
Urban Lore: a comic look at urban life
Remember the days when the first thing you’d look for at the breakfast table was a newspaper, and then flip straight to the comic...
Can we save our cities? Urban Vision Founder, Prathima Manohar, tells...
Prathima Manohar, a social entrepreneur, urbanist, and the founder and president of The Urban Vision, a think-do-tank on cities, has never been one to...
