Streets of the Bombay Improvement Trust

My current job allows me to spend long hours looking at the plan of Mumbai, and even as I am Continue reading →

Why loiter?

Why Loiter? (1)  I love to loiter (being in a public space without a purpose) but instead I often find Continue reading →

Cinema and the City

This month, citizens of Mumbai conducted series of workshops with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to voice their Continue reading →

The Mumbai Development Plan: A Politics of Representation

The Development Plan (DP) of Mumbai is a statutory document that lays out important parameters of growth in the city, Continue reading →

The Giants Garden

(The write up and diagrams used in this blogpost were produced for CRITs entry to Audi Urban Futures Initiative Exhibition Continue reading →

A City Rising: Mumbai in a few photographs

Vast landscapes of north-light trusses shrouding sheds, offices and workshop spaces, part of the once fully functional textile mill lands Continue reading →

Housing Without Developers

  Last week Studio X Mumbai held a day long workshop provocatively titled “Housing without Developers”. As elaborated on their Continue reading →

Novelizing Journalism

Every so often, a book about poor people captures the attention of large numbers of first-world readers. Journalist Katherine Boo’s Continue reading →