Named after one of the most iconic figures of Dalit empowerment in Maharashtra, the residents of the slum on Mumbai’s creek live perpetually under the brutal and rapacious claws of BMC authorities and their bulldozers.
Surrounded by the slums occupied by Dalits, Adivasis, and Muslims, the celebrated gated communities of our cities reflect the naked truth of two Indias — one within the gate, the other outside of it.
Santosh Thorat lives in a tiny tenement in Mankhurd slums. His goal is to explore the hidden talents of the slum. Many gems are lost. Many lives are never lived to their fullest. Santosh desires to help those people in the...
At least 280 slum cluster demolitions have taken place in the capital between 1990 and 2020. Following Covid-19 pandemic, the problem of forced evictions and the consequent homelessness has become a major issue for Delhi's...
'Mitigation, however, is not the only climate action that is required. Mitigation is one of the five climate actions required. A very major climate action is adaptation. People who have nothing to do with global warming are...
The slums of Vikaspuri, on the far western outskirts of the National capital, are witnessing a silent revolution -- girls are making the football talk
The lives of Delhi's slum-dwellers by the riverside, are ruled by diseases due to the toxic emancipation from the Yamuna water.
In Mumbai, the provisioning of housing by removal of slums and its redevelopment by involving private developers has had serious implications for the residents of these settlements as well as the city at large.
Judges calling slum dwellers ‘encroachers’ goes against constitutional human rights and indicates the sorry state of the poor
Jai and Biru returned to Ramgarh because they had Gabbar to eliminate. This essay delves into what makes all kinds of migrants—people who leave,...
Across the boundary wall of the Narcotics Control Bureau HQ in South Delhi, lay a Dalit slum, Ambedkar Basti, infested with drugs, addicts and related violence.
The lives of the people in Delhi's Kusumpur Pahari slum took a turn for the worse in 2020 as the real effects of the pandemic began to unravel.
On August 31, the SC had issued directions to remove slum dwellings in the national capital in a phased manner
Dharavi, India's biggest slum colony, was earlier cited by the WHO for its efficient response to the virus
In India, Teachers' Day is celebrated annually on September 5 to mark the birthday of the country's former President, scholar, philosopher and Bharat Ratna...
The top court also restrained any court from granting any kind of stay with respect to removal of encroachments in the area and said in case any interim order...
Overcrowding in slums makes social distancing and self-quarantine quixotic, and place the slum dwellers at an increased risk of contracting an infection.
Prajakta Godbole's father Vilas earlier worked as a security guard but met with an accident and is paralysed now. Her mother Aruna used to work as a cook at a...
PM Modi and Trump are scheduled to address over one lakh people at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera on February 24, as part of the "Namaste Trump" event.
The inspiring story of a field study from the City of Joy, where slum women led the flagship project as budding micro-entrepreneurs