Jul 05, 2020 One of the real problems of the Indian city is that the migrant is never made to feel like a citizen. When the citizen himself doesn’t feel like a citizen, this is but expected, writes Gautam Bhatia.
May 25, 2020 Observe from any perspective – the affluent, the poor, the working class, the migrant – before the pandemic, urban life in India had deprived most people of a decent standard of living.
May 09, 2020 Will the eventual recovery from the virus also be a form of social resolution, a victory for the government, and a reunion of our varied classes and underclasses?
Nov 21, 2019 Authorities must accept the smog as a problem and innovate for the Indian context, writes author and architect, Gautam Bhatia
Jan 24, 2019 We ask little of our buildings, yet agonise over mere spectacle
Dec 02, 2016 Now that the builder of the Trump Tower is on his way to Washington, the architecture of New York City will have some reason to celebrate.
Jun 13, 1998 What if a bomb is dropped on Delhi? Architect Gautam Bhatia reconstructs the city from the ruins.
Aug 09, 1997 Trips down memory lane become the predicament of a nation entering puberty
Dec 19, 1998
Feb 06, 1999 For some there is joy in driving in straight lines, unhindered by the bullock cart. But what more?
Jul 24, 1999 Diverse peoples have been absorbed as easily as Macburger in the land of the tandoori chicken.
Nov 24, 2001 That's Delhi, a city that lost its focus as it rushed unplanned into madness
Jul 10, 2004 Architecture walked around in space and landscape, architecture sighted, heard, even touched in rural isolation and urban squalor...
Feb 18, 2006
May 26, 2007 A historical return to the anatomical parts last encountered in Intermediate Biology, now attached to heroic figures from India's colonial past.
Aug 11, 2007 Architecture in India is a play of forms, and a disturbing one at that
Sep 22, 2007 An unhappy mix of confused writing that oscillates between simplistic and sentimental, to merely banal.
Nov 10, 2007 The farcical treatment of Tamil society is both delicate and deadly. All primary causes and debates are reduced to caricature; which, in truth is the reality of India.
Sep 06, 2008 Mario Miranda extracted humour from every nook of life. A sun-warmed compendium.
Dec 06, 2008 New York is another city. Can Mumbai, hostage to a murky substrata of underworld and petty political interests, respond in its own way?
Jan 16, 2010 Genial flow of a fireside chat—easy, amiable explanations of the role of design in society.
Mar 06, 2010 To see Dharavi as a self-renewing organism that is changing, upgrading its own structure of accommodation, is the great gift of the book.
Jul 24, 2010 A top architect casts a lucid eye on the dispiriting welter of our cities; his insights can make a difference
