ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846

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The City is Not a Closed Box: Elphinstone Tragedy and Assumptions in Urban Policy

The 29 September railway bridge stampede in Mumbai compels us to question our narrow and inward-looking focus on cities and conceptualise a language that looks at the broader social and spatial processes that affect social justice.

Workers’ Dissent in a Democracy

Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India by Manjusha Nair; Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016; pp 248, $85 (hardback).

Bengal's Industrial Backyard

Urban Development in Howrah: Socio-Economic Perspectives edited by Mahalaya Chatterjee and Anis Mukhopadhyay; New Delhi: Primus Books, 2015; pp xii + 413, Rs 1,595.

New Urban Displacement

Displacement, Revolution and the New Urban Condition: Theories and Case Studies by Ipsita Chatterjee, New Delhi: Sage, 2014; pp 158, Rs 645.

Anchoring the Past

A plan to resurrect Mumbai’s eastern docklands and maritime history would be incomplete without promoting the Marine Museum at Nhava.

Africa in a Time Warp

In the Bengali film Chader Pahar, director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee has wasted the chance for a course correction on Africa.

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