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Economy

How northeastern migrants are building a home away from home in Delhi’s Humayunpur

July 26, 2019 Arunav Chowdhury

Take a peek inside the melting pot that is Humayunpur, where you will find northeastern migrants from across the city gather to shop for groceries, eat native food and look for houses to rent. ‘It’s just like home,’ they say.

Governance

Dr N Sivaprasad, Chittoor: Good in theatrics, poor in attendance

April 6, 2019 Laasya Shekhar

Zero debates, less than average attendance and fewer questions: theatre artist-turned-Member of Parliament from Chittoor constituency in AP, Dr N Sivaprasad could have done better.

Society

Bubbling with energy, these Kolkata kids taught apartment elders how to save energy

July 18, 2018 Biswajit Majumder

Ably guided by an aware and responsible citizen, a group of kids from a Kolkata apartment complex undertook a novel summer project — educating themselves and elders in the community about saving water, energy and the environment in general.

Society

How a Mumbai township celebrated Earth Day (IN PHOTOS)

April 23, 2018 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Almost 300 people, age 3 upwards, lent their strokes to 3500 sq ft of wall area, to beautify the neighbourhood as part of the ‘Colour My Township’ initiative organised by a residents’ collective in Lokhandwala, Kandivali.

Commute

Travelling to Mangalore by Rajdhani? Here’s what you may expect!

December 25, 2017 Akash K

With poor access and connectivity and glaring infrastructural gaps, the Mangalore Railway Junction station is crying out for attention, but apart from usual election season promises, there has been little action on the front.

Environment

This January, 10000 families will join hands to make their city greener

December 21, 2017 Sidharth Naik

Pimple Saudagar, a suburb of Pimpri Chinchwad, sister city of Pune, has kickstarted a focused campaign among all citizen stakeholders to ensure that no one uses plastic bags from January 1st.

Society

Remembering Delhi as it was: A walk around Kashmiri Gate

October 23, 2017 Kasturika Ramamoorthy

In a walk around the Kashmiri Gate area of Delhi organised by the KLoDB (Knowing and Loving Delhi Better) community, the author loses herself in nuggets of history and rediscovers the capital as it once was.

Civic

The story of a Gurgaon community that has kept 50000 kilos of waste away from the landfill

September 13, 2017 Monika Khanna Gulati

In just nine months, waste segregation by residents of the gated Nirvana Country community has achieved the above, and yielded five tons of compost. What does it really take to go green?

Civic

When Gurugram citizens took charge of cleaning a stormwater drain

September 6, 2017 Latika Thukral

Solving many of our everyday civic issues does not involve rocket science; all it takes is for citizens and administration to work together, as the successful cleaning of this Gurgaon stormwater drain shows.

Civic

Behind Mumbai’s darkest clouds, the silver lining: The human spirit!

August 30, 2017 Tejaswini Patwardhan

A city is not about all that crashes and crumbles. A city is what people make it. This was perhaps the most important among the many lessons learnt by this citizen on the day that Mumbai went under water.

Society

When kids reclaim city streets: A photo essay

July 17, 2017 Gopal M S

Where do children go when our cities fall prey to unilateral growth agendas leading to more cars, more high-rises and disappearing playgrounds? These poignant photos from Mumbai streets by Gopal MS tells the story.

Environment

Where a dumping ground is a tourist attraction!

June 30, 2017 UNDP India

A half-hour drive from Goa, the small municipality of Vengurla is recycling 7 tonnes of waste generated daily and earning money from plastic sold to contractors for road-building in nearby areas.


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