IIHS faculty, associates and staff regularly contribute OpEds to leading online and print publication platforms such as The Indian Express, IndiaSpend, DailyO, Huff Post India, Caravan and Kafila among others. Browse through new and popular pieces below.
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Swachh feats belie workers’ struggles
Niladri Chakraborti & Arka Sinha Roy | 25 November 2024
A wet waste route to organic farming targets
Pushkara S V | 7 December 2024
India’s cities, their non-communicable disease burden
Aruna Bhattacharya | 2 December 2024
How can design help a building be more climate-resilient?
Sandhya Patil | The Hindu – 19 November 2024
How policies shape high-performance building standards and climate goals
Sandhya Patil | The Hindu – 22 October 2024
How high-performance buildings are the next step towards a sustainable future
Sandhya Patil | The Hindu – 08 October 2024
Moving the needle on property governance
Deepika Jha | The Hindustan Times – 31 August 2024
Access to knowledge is a right, not a privilege
Preedip Balaji | The Hindustan Times – 12 August 2024
What the Government’s Drive to Formalise MSMEs Ignores
Kinjal Sampat | The Wire – 10 July 2024
Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s new novel challenges readers to look beyond the magic
Dakshayini Suresh | Frontline – 25 June 2024
Periods and Perceptions: A Journey through Kannagi Nagar
Abhilaasha N | The Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) – 28 May 2024
MSMEs have not been defined well — and micro enterprises pay the price for this
Kinjal Sampat | Indian Express – 20 May 2024
Can Industrial Corridors Balance Growth with Urban Challenges?
Tanvi Bhatikar, Prajna Beleyur | The Wire – 16 May 2024
Pushkara S V | The Hindu – 16 May 2024
Jagdish Krishnaswamy | Frontline – 29 April 2024
Implementation of Universal Health Coverage
Aruna Bhattacharya | The Hindu – 08 April 2024
Workers, Not Tech, Should be State’s Priority
Ananth Kamath, Neethi P | The Hindu – 01 April 2024
Actionable Ideas for TB Control
Aruna Bhattacharya | The Hindu – 25 March 2024
Urban Employment Programmes: A Catalyst for Female Labour Force Participation
Vrashali Khandelwal, Sukrit Nagpal | The Wire – 11 March 2024
The Burden of Women in Construction
Namrata Chindankar, Divya Ravindranath | The Hindu – 08 March 2024
Domestic Workers Deserve Workplace Benefits
Divya Ravindranath | The Wire – 07 March 2024
Climate Change, Agro Ecology, and Nutritional Security: Food for Serious Thought
Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Sheetal Patil, Dhanya Bhaskar | The India Forum – 02 March 2024
Understanding the World of the Informal Waste Picker
Neethi P, Drupad U | The Hindu – 01 March 2024
A Dive into Sanitation Solutions: Processing, Managing and Treating used Water
Mahima Vijendra, Santhosh Ragavan, K . V | The Hindu – 25 December 2023
A Recipe for Change: Reshaping Our Food Systems Amid Rising Costs and Climate Change
Sheetal Patil | The Wire – 24 December 2023
Cities with Worse Air than Delhi Fixed the Problem: Nine Things India Needs to do to Follow Suit
Aromar Revi | The Indian Express – 13 November 2023
Why is Bengaluru Expanding its Waste-Management Capacity? | Explained
Pushkara S V | The Hindu – 16 October 2023
Prioritising Mental Health in an Urbanising World
Aruna Bhattacharya | Hindustan Times – 10 October 2023
Mental Health and the Floundering Informal Worker
Neethi P | The Hindu – 10 October 2023
Monitoring Fruit Bat Colonies Could Provide Early Warning for Nipah Outbreaks
Kadambari Deshpande, Jagadish Krishnaswamy | Nature India – 25 September 2023
From Western Disturbances to El Niño, Climate Change is Affecting India’s Food Security
Jagadish Krishnaswamy | The Hindu – 11 September 2023
How is India Mainstreaming Gender in Climate Change Adaptation?
Chandni Singh | Questionsofcities.org – 08 September 2023
Decarbonising the Building Industry with Solar Decathlon India
Prasad Vaidya | The Financial World – 04 September 2023
Prioritising Repair in India’s Cities
Ananya Peddibhotla, Sudeshna Mitra, Vrashali Khandelwal | India Development Review – 30 August, 2023
Guest post: Gauging the success of climate change adaptation
Chandni Singh, Diana Reckien, Alex K Magnan, Ben Orlove, Lisa Schipper, Erin Coughlan de Perez | CarbonBrief – 21 August 2023
Karnataka’s ‘Koosina Mane’ creches | Redefining childcare
Antara Rai Chowdhury, Divya Ravindranath | The Hindu – 17 August 2023
Urban Job Schemes can Recharge our Cities and Fight Deep Inequalities
Gautam Bhan, Shriya Anand | Hindustan Times – 02 August 2023
Climate Change, Poor Prices Deterred Tomato Growers from Cultivating the Crop
Ketaki Ghoge | Hindustan Times – 24 July 2023
How Natural Farming Can Revive India’s Farmlands and Ensure Sustainable Agriculture
Indira Singh | The Wire – 21 July 2023
Will Universal Insurance Help Maha’s Farmers this El Nino Year?
Ketaki Ghoge | Hindustan Times – 17 July 2023
How to Prevent Disruptions by Flood and Extreme Weather Events
Aromar Revi | The Indian Express – 15 July 2023
The Existential Threat to Public Libraries in India
Nabeel Ahmad | Indian Cultural Forum – 03 July 2023
Explained | What Will it Take for an Indian City to Become Low Carbon
Stuti Haldar | The Hindu – 06 June 2023
What Bengaluru’s TB Control Programme tells us about Efficiency of Health Systems for Migrants
Aruna Bhattacharya | Citizen Matters – 29 May 2023
Menstrual Health is a Public Health Issue
Aruna Bhattacharya, Arundati Muralidharan | The Hindu – 29 May 2023
Systemic Shame Surrounding Menstruation is Alive and Thriving, Everywhere
Kavita Wankhade | The News Minute – 28 May 2023
MSME | Labour formalisation crucial for this crucial sector
Kinjal Sampat, Sharon Buteau | Deccan Herald – 23 May 2023
Rajasthan’s Move Spells Some Hope for Gig Workers
Aditi Surie | The Hindu – 17 May 2023
Of Safety and Livelihoods: A Life Beyond Tradeoffs in Jharia Coal Mines
Gajjar Harshal Deepak | The Bastion – 09 May 2023
Jharia’s Coal Miners Are Stuck Between Smoky Fires and Crumbling Houses
Gajjar Harshal Deepak | The Bastion – 02 May 2023
Blinkit Protests: For Gig Workers, There is no Income Security – and Little Legal Recourse
Aditi Surie, Ambika Tandon | The Indian Express – 20 April 2023
Aromar Revi | Financial Express – 08 April 2023
Cities can Lead the Way on Climate Transformation
Aromar Revi | Hindustan Times – 22 March 2023
Explained | Why do so Many Waste-to-Energy Plants Fail?
Pushkara, S. V. | The Hindu – 21 March 2023
Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis
Aromar Revi | Project Syndicate – 20 March 2023
Explained | Why do Landfills Catch Fire and What Can We do About Them?
Pushkara, S. V. | The Hindu – 15 March 2023
Analysis | Why not Everyone will Benefit Equally from a Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Stuti Haldar, Mithlesh Verma | The Hindu – 09 February 2023
Introducing Geospatial Technology in Industrial Water Management
Shravishtha Ajaykumar, Prajna Ravindra Beleyur | Observer Research Foundation – 26 December 2022
Looking at Cities Through the Studio Ghibli Lens
Priya Singh | LiveWire.in – 12 November 2022
Herry Gulabani, Shriya Anand, Viola Lewis and Sooraj Raveendran | Citizen Matters – 18 October 2022
Why Cities find it Difficult to Replicate Indore’s Waste Processing Model
Pushkara, S. V. | Citizen Matters – 13 October 2022
Aromar Revi | SDG Action – 12 October 2022
The Growing Peril of Bengaluru’s Missing Drains
Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Kiran, M. C. | The Hindu – 21 September 2022
Launching the Next Three Decades of Climate Action with Young Engineers and Architects
Prasad Vaidya, Janani Venkatesh | Your Story – 15 September 2022
An Urban Employment Programme Should not be just about Wage and Work but about Skilling too
Shriya Anand, Gautam Bhan | The Economic Times – 20 July 2022
World Population Day: India has a Demographic Dividend to Reap – but Will it?
Neethi P | Science The Wire – 11 July 2022
Arupjyoti Saikia, Jagdish Krishnaswamy | The Indian Express – 7 July 2022
Narrow Lanes and Deeper Histories: Reflections from KG Halli
Omkar Nadh Pattela | Ethnomarginalia – 20 June 2022
Five Years of RERA: What Does the Data Show?
Tsomo Wangchuk, Herry Gulabani | Citizen Matters – 4 June 2022
Fear or Grow – How to Tackle Climate Crisis
Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata | Let me Breathe – 31 May 2022
Spring Never came to India this Year
Chandni Singh | The New York Times – 24 May 2022
Pain and Womanhood: An Exploration of How we allow Ourselves to Feel — and Heal
Divya Ravindranath | News9live.com – 15 May 2022
Do you Segregate Garbage Meticulously? Most of that Plastic Still Ends up in Landfills
Pushkara SV | Scroll.in – 10 May 2022
Swarnika Sharma, Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata | People Resource Centre – 1 May 2022
Sprouting your way to a sustainable future
Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata | Letmebreathe.in. – 21 April 2022
What Forces us to Look at Food Delivery Platforms’ Powers Differently
Aditi Surie | The Economic Times – 9 April 2022
Why Indian Cities Must Urgently Start to Recycle Construction Waste
Pushkara S V, Avinash Madhwaraj | Scroll.in – 31 March 2022
International Women’s Day | Working Women too, with a Dream of Good Childcare
Neethi P, Antara Rai Chowdhury, Divya Ravindranath, | The Hindu – 8 March 2022
Bengaluru’s Sex Workers: Old Work Spaces are all Gone, the City now Considers them ‘Undesirables’
Anant Kamath, Neethi P |Citizen Matters – 28 February 2022
Coastal Cities Can Battle the Climate Crisis by Adaptation
Chandni Singh | Hindustan Times – 28 February 2022
Nilanjan Bhor | Health Systems Global – 23 February 2022
Waste Management: Will Solar Photovoltaics be the Next Plastic?
Stuti Haldar | The Wire Science – 9 January 2022
Pushkara S V | The Hindu – 8 December 2021
Shriya Anand | Times of India – 18 November 2021
Cities are Taking Climate Action
Chandni Singh, Mythili Madhavan | The Hindu – 05 October 2021
The Evolution of Cities in Hindi Cinema
Priya Singh | Filmcompanion.in – 16 September 2021
Reduce GeoTIFF disk space usage with Python
Pratyush Tripathy | Towards Data Science – 04 September 2021
Fishing Village in Tamil Nadu: Remembrances and Realities, after Cyclone Gaja
Yashodara Udupa | EPW Engage – 09 August 2021
This World Breastfeeding Week, India Needs to Ask Why Its Maternity Benefit Laws Fall Short
Divya Ravindranath | The Wire – 07 August 2021
Viola Lewis | IndiaSpend – 02 August 2021
Planning Bangalore The Colonial Legacy of Discriminatory Housing
Arjun Srinivas, Pooja Rao | The India Forum – 30 July 2021
Swarnika Sharma, Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata | People’s Resource Centre -21 July 2021
Gavari: A 40-day mystical theatre celebration of the goddess among Rajasthan’s Bhil tribe
Nishita Benerjee | Sahpedia.org – 29 June 2021
Occupational Safety of Sanitation Workers Is Not Just a Technical Problem
Kavita Wankhade | The Wire – 28 June 2021
View: The Time for a National Relief Package to Prop up Covid-hit Working Households is Now
Gautam Bhan, Rajendran Narayanan | The Economic Times – 25 June 2021
In Photos: How Gurugram’s Now-Demolished Kaman Sarai Helps Residents Reimagine Their City
Tsomo Wangchuk, Nishita Banerjee | Scroll.in – 15 June 2021
Why the Growth of Urban Agriculture During the Lockdown is a Promising Trend
Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata | Citizen Matters – 11 June 2021
Hidden Gardens of Bengaluru: Reimagining Resilience Through Urban Agriculture
Swarnika Sharma | Weather.Com – 05 June 2021
India’s Large Informal Workforce Must Be Prioritised in Our COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy
Divya Ravindranath, Vikas Kumar | The Wire – 01 June 2021
Covid-19 in Maps: Public Hospitals in Most Bihar Districts Lack ICU Support as Second Wave Hits
Pratyush Tripathy | Scroll.in – 12 May 2021
Gujarat is Progressing Towards its Solar PV Rooftop Target
Stuti Haldar, Bhawana Pathak | PV Magazine – 22 April 2021
Reflection from KNOW Annual Workshop, 2021
Ruchika Lall, Wilbard Kombe, Alphonce Kyessi, Tatu Mtwangi-Limbumba | Know Blog – 21 April 2021
Gavari: A 40-day Mystical Theatre Celebration of the Goddess Among Rajasthan’s Bhil Tribe
Nishita Banerjee | Shapedia.org – 24 March 2021
Gujarat’s Residential Solar Rooftop Targets: Challenges And Way Forward
Stuti Haldar | Times of India – 17 April 2021
My Experiences of Engaging with the Narratives of Planning Degree Alumni from Different Countries
Priya Singh | Know Blog – 23 March 2021
Uttarakhand Floods Highlight the Need to Factor in the Environment While Planning Development
Jagdish Krishnaswamy | Scroll.in – 13 March 2021
Invisible Sanitation, Invisible Women
Kavita Wankhade | The Wire – 08 March 2021
Green Index Takes Care of Environment?
Jagdish Krishnaswamy | New Indian Express – 06 March 2021
Why Bioremediation is not a Magic Pill for India’s Overflowing Landfills
Pushkara S V | Citizen Matters – 24 February 2021
Why India’s Urban Poor Struggle to Transition to Clean Cooking Despite Grave Health Impacts
André Neto-Bradley, Rishika Rangarajan | The Conversation – 19 February 2021
Scarcity for Whom? Tracing the History of Groundwater Use and Inequality in Gujarat, India
Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata | Water Science Policy – 11 February 2021
Roopashi Khatri | Millennium Post – 02 February 2021
Of Fathers and Sons in Big League Cricket
Manish Dubey | The Citizen – 22 January 2021
Wistron Plant Turmoil Is a Consequence of Privileging Foreign Capital Over Domestic Workers
Neethi P | The Wire – 13 January 2021
India’s Farmer Protest Has Exposed a Polity-Wide Crisis
Manish Dubey | The Citizen – 12 January 2021
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing: A Note on Uber Drivers in New Delhi
Adavi Krishna Akhil Kumar | Ethnomarginalia – 08 January 2021
New Year Resolutions for Unusual Times
Manish Dubey | Deccan Herald – 30 December 2020
Celebrating the Indian Christmas
Manish Dubey | Deccan Herald – 23 December 2020
Pushkara S V | The Hindu – 18 December 2020
Did we Really miss International Cricket in 2020?
Manish Dubey | Deccan Herald – 11 December 2020
The Vulnerable Foundations of India’s Urbanism
Gautam Bhan | Public Books – 19 November 2020
Let’s Talk Sanitation! Kakkaman is here, this WTD2020
Abhilaasha N, Srinithi Sudhakar | India Water Portal – 19 November 2020
Neethi P | The Hindu – 17 November 2020
Could Organic City Compost Reduce Production Costs in Agriculture?
Pushkara S V | The Wire – 30 October 2020
Groundwater Recharge Needs Grassroots Solutions: A Study of Two Techniques in Kerala
Abhinav M, SaiRama Raju Marella | India Water Portal – 08 October 2020
Aditi Surie | The Hindu – 08 October 2020
How Meghalaya’s Traditional Institutions Helped State’s COVID-19 Response
Tsomo Wangchuck | Science The Wire – 28 August 2020
The Case Against Big-Tech: Justice or Theatrics
Roopashi Khatri | Center for Competition Law and Economics – 24 August 2020
Pandemic Exposure: ‘Platform’ Infrastructure in Public Use in India
Aditi Surie | Compas Coronavirus and Mobility Forum – 17 August 2020
Thinking about COVID-19 Relief and Recovery in India
Ruchika Lall, Anand Lakhan, Abdul Shakeel, Issac Arul Selva | Know Blog – 12 August 2020
With Barely Any Occupants, Lockdown has Hit Bengaluru’s PG Housing Operators
SaiRama Raju Marella | The News Minute – 09 August 2020
The Pandemic, Southern Urbanisms and Collective Life
Gautam Bhan, Teresa Caldeira, Kelly Gillespie, Abdou Maliq Simone | Society & Space – 03 August 2020
Reservations in Promotions – Not a Fundamental Right?
Ruchira Das, Chethan Anand | The New Leam – 04 July 2020
Library Resources and Services Increase Output of Institution’s Urbanisation Research
Amrutraj R Benehal | IFLA Library Map of the World – 15 June 2020
Rajasthan: How a Small Labour Union Helped Domestic Workers Tide Over the Lockdown
Rama, Meena, Snehlatha, Antara | The Wire – 16 June 2020
COVID-19: Sanitation Workers Require Access to Menstrual Health
Senthalir S, Abhilaasha Nagarajan, Srinithi Sudhakar | The Wire -09 June 2020
On World Food Safety Day, Time to Ask a Key Question – What is Good Food?
Natasha S K | Scroll.In – 07 June 2020
What Lessons Can India’s West Coast Learn From the Cyclone-Weathered East?
Gargi Sen, Vineetha Nalla | Science The Wire – 04 June 2020
How Trichy’s Daily Wager Sanitation Workers found Support During the COVID Lockdown
TNUSSP Team | Citizen Matters – 03 June 2020
Neglect of Low-Income Migrants in Covid-19 Response
Anuj Kapilashrami, Anns Issac, Jeevan Sharma, Kolitha Wickramage, Ekatha Ann John, Divya Ravindranath, Roomi Aziz, Patrick Duigan | The BMJ Opinion – 29 May 2020
Coronavirus Lockdown: Why Rs 5,000 Crore Credit Facility for Street Vendors May Fall Short
Keerthana Jagadeesh, Shriya Anand | Deccan Herald – 28 May 2020
View: India Should Make its Cities Worker Friendly.
Gautam Bhan | The Economic Times – 27 May 2020
Does Karnataka’s Rural Economy have Space for Returning Migrant Workers?
Pushkara S V, Shobha Anand Reddy | Scroll.In – 21 May 2020
How India’s Experience in Managing Disasters Can Inform our COVID-19 Response
Nihal Ranjit, Vineetha Nalla | Deccan Herald – 13 May 2020
Swastik Harish, Rasha Hasan Lala | The Hindu – 06 May 2020
Understanding the Implications of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Migrant Workers’ Children
Divya Ravindranath, Umi Daniel | The Wire – 05 May 2020
As Millions Face Food Deficit, PDS Needs to Look Beyond Income to Provide Provisions
Keerthana Jagadeesh, Shriya Anand | The News Minute – 27 April 2020
Is CNN Equally Shiny on Mid-Resolution Satellite Data?
Pratyush Tripathy | Towards Data Science – 24 April 2020
Individual Action Versus Systemic Change: Lessons from COVID19 for Climate Change
Chandni Singh | Nature Research – Behavioural & Social Sciences – 22 April 2020
Is the Indian Health System Prepared to Address Injuries due to Road Accidents
Nilanjan Bhor | Health Systems Global – 15 April 2020
Covid-19 package: It’s Like Trying to Cure Patient on Verge of Cardiac Arrest with Physical Exercise
Kinjal Sampat | Scroll.In – 13 April 2020
Coronavirus: India’s Lockdown has Led to Chaos Because the Government Misunderstood How Cities Work
Jasmitha Arvind, Vinita Govindarajan | Scroll.In – 09 April 2020
View: Why the Issue of Migrant Security Should be a Top Priority in India’s Covid Response
Gautam Bhan | The Economic Times – 08 April 2020
Aditi Surie | The Hindu – 25 March 2020
How the Coronavirus Outbreak is also a Socio-Economic Inequality Issue
Neethi P, Anant Kamath | The Wire – 23 March 2020
Fighting the Writing Culture of the Privileged
Tanoj Kumar Meshram | Round Table India – 07 February 2020
Vineetha Nalla, Nihal Ranjit | The Hindu – 05 February 2020
Sooraj Raveendran | IndiaSpend – 24 January 2020
Clicking, waiting, praying: The making of the techno-scientific professional priest
Adavi Krishna Akhil Kumar | The Bastion – 10 January 2020
The Street Vendors Act Falls Short of Accommodating Mobile Hawkers
Keerthana Jagadeesh, Shriya Anand | The Wire – 08 January 2020
A Tale of Two States: Why Disaster Recovery in India Needs to go Beyond Housing
Jasmitha Arvind, Nihal Ranjit | Scroll.in – 08 January 2020
Clicking, Waiting, Praying: The Mantras of Hindu Tech Startups
Adavi Krishna Akhil Kumar | The Bastion – 05 January 2020
How the Upcoming Satellite Town Ring Road will affect lives and Livelihoods around Bengaluru
Prathijna Poonacha Kodira | Citizen Matters – 26 December 2019
Neethi P, Nandita Shivakumar | The Hindu – 25 December 2019
Roopashi Khatri | Millennium Post – 16 December 2019
How Rachenahalli Lake Became a Classroom for High School Students
Shobha Ananda Reddy | Citizen Matters – 26 November 2019
Job Risks, no Benefits: Why Govt Health Camps for Sanitation Workers are Key
S Senthalir | The News Minute – 20 November 2019
Aditi Surie | The Hindu – 12 November 2019
Map: How Bangalore’s IT sector flowered from a princely state Diwan’s industrial dream in 1911
Aditi Dey, Anish Pendharkar | Scroll.in – 10 October 2019
Turning to the skies for search and rescue during floods
Teja Malladi, Pratyush Tripathy | Mongabay.com – 10 October 2019
Swastik Harish, Eklavya Vasudev | The Hindu – 01 October 2019
How Labour Conditions at Construction Sites are Leading to Higher Rates of Child Malnutrition
Divya Ravindranath | Scroll.in – 27 September 2019
Neural Network for Satellite Data Classification Using Tensorflow in Python
Pratyush Tripathy | Towards Data Science – 11 September 2019
Creating space for human to human connections – An experiential Blog
Anna Goubert, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Natalija, Tim Nolden, Maitreyi Koduganti | Water Youth Network – 11 September 2019
Mapping How Growth in Kochi, Mumbai and Chennai Made Them Flood and Drought-Prone
Archita Suryanarayanan, Kaavya Kumar, Teja Malladi | The News Minute – 8 September 2019
Four Ways India’s Aviation Sector Can Battle Climate Change
Mukesh Yadav | Scroll.in – 6 September 2019
By Creating Green Jobs, Indian Towns Can Save the Environment and their Economies
Shobha Ananda Reddy, Pooja Vincia D’souza | IndiaSpend- 3 September 2019
Roopashi Khatri | Millennium Post – 2 August 2019
Anna Goubert, Natalija Vojno, Tim Nolden, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Maitreyi Koduganti | Water Youth Network – 30 July 2019
In maps: How Chennai Grew Over its Lakes
Teja Malladi, Kaavya Kumar | Scroll.In – 12 July 2019
How Much Is India Spending On Its Public Libraries?
Preedip Balaji B, Mohan Raju J S, Vinay M S | IndiaSpend – 22 June 2019
Stalling: How to Save the Global City
Gautam Bhan | Public Books – 11 th June 2019
#PeriodTalk: High Time we Challenge the Secrecy Around Menstruation
Abhilaasha N, Archita Suryanarayanan | The Wire – 10th June 2019
Making Indian Cities Inclusive Means Making them More Walkable
Archita Suryanarayanan, Christine Ro | iied.org – 5th June 2019
Is There a Way Beyond Pedestrian Subways and Foot Overbridges?
Sofia Juliet Rajan | The Hindu – 25 May 2019
World migratory bird day: Time to protect their right to flight
Swarnika Sharma | Weather.Com – 11 May 2019
Earth day: Can genetic technology help resurrect extinct species?
Swarnika Sharma | Weather.Com – 22 April 2019
Feeding wildlife or feeding conflict: How human subsidy affects urban wildlife
Swarnika Sharma | Weather.Com – 18 April 2019
India urgently needs safer sanitation solutions
Somya Sethuraman | The Wire – 5th April 2019
One walk, three public libraries, many thoughts
Mandara Vishwanath, Preedip Balaji | Torch Light – 30 th March 2019
Prioritising Housing Needs of Slum-Dwellers is not only a Moral Imperative but now a Legal One
Eklavya Vasudev | The Indian Express – 29th March 2019
Seasonal migration and health in India: Constraints for research and practice
Divya Ravindranath, Divya Varma | Ideas for India – 25th March 2019
We made some noise, and then they went silent
Swarnika Sharma | Weather. Com – 02 March 2019
Find Your Way to Public Toilets with Google Maps
Sofia Juliet Rajan | The Hindu – 23 February 2019
Do you Want to Join our Hyperlocal History Project?
Sofia Juliet Rajan | The Hindu – 07 February 2019
India’s new drone policy is shortsighted. Here’s why
Mukesh Yadav | Scroll.in – 6th February 2019
Arindam Jana, Archita Suryanarayanan | IndiaSpend – 23 January 2019
Most Indian Girls Unprepared for Menstruation, Taboos Drive Unhygienic Practices
TNUSSP Team | IndiaSpend – 22 January 2019
Taking cues from people’s movements for governing climate change induced migration
Ritwika Basu | Urbanet – 8 January 2019
Sanitation does not end with Flushing a Toilet
TNUSSP Team | IndiaSpend – 7 January 2019
India’s Pharma Industry: At a Patent Disadvantage
Pattela Omkar Nadh | Deccan Herald – 27 December 2018
Have you Tried the Miyawaki Method?
Sofia Juliet Rajan | The Hindu – 30 November 2018
Kukur Tihar: Time to celebrate the remarkable human-canine evolutionary bond
Swarnika Sharma | Weather.Com – 6 November 2018
Glocal sustainability: Sustainable development or forced cultural assimilation?
Ritwika Basu | Policyforum.net – 31 October 2018
Updating land records in Telangana: What cities could learn from the rural exercise
Varun Panickar | Citizen Matters – 31 October 2018
In Himachal, effective forest management could make cities more resilient too
Hansika Seth | Citizen Matters – 29 October 2018
Is Delhi ready for development based on land pooling?
Ruby Moun | Citizen Matters – 26 October 2018
The kids are all right: An intergenerational tale of living and loving YA fiction
Rekha Raghunathan | Torch Light – 22 October 2018
In Ladakh’s Turtuk village, life goes on as it has since the 15th century
Archita Suryanarayanan | The Hindu – 14 October 2018
Mazing through peri-urban Bangalore
Maitreyi Koduganti | ASSAR – 2 October 2018
Why Trained Masons are Critical to India’s Sanitation Drive
TNUSSP Team | IndiaSpend – 2 October 2018
Building capacities in India through unlearning, training and sharing
Maitreyi Koduganti | ASSAR – 23 September 2018
To the Himalayas on an environmental mission
Sandeep Kumar Mitra | The Times of India – 23 September 2018
Waste: Managing a New Inequality
Roopashi Khatri | Deccan Herald – 12 September 2018
Designed to fail: Not just Kochi, many of India’s major airports are vulnerable to disaster
Teja Malladi | Scroll.in – 11 September 2018
For all that we may become: on the Section 377 verdict
Gautam Bhan | The Hindu – 7 September 2018
When it cost 20 times more for a return journey in Bengaluru
Amogh Arakali | Citizen Matters – 5 September 2018
To work or breastfeed: tough choice sets back women in India’s informal economy
Lesson from Devastation in Kerala: Investing in New Knowledge for the Future
Jagdish Krishnaswamy | The Mint – 22 August 2018
NRC in Assam goes much beyond Hindu-Muslim binary; ignores state’s complicated history
As India Struggles with Climate Change, Farming Couple Learns to cope and Flourish
Have you Read your Rainwater Manual?
Sofia Juliet Rajan | The Hindu – 3 August 2018
Adaptation futures 2018: An enthralling journey to the Mother City
Food at the touch of a button: what does it mean for city planning?
Archita Suryanarayanan | The Hindu – 7 July 2018
The Startup Conundrum: Innovation Versus Risk
Pattela Omkar Nadh | Deccan Herald – 08 July 2018
Keeping Pet Licences in Perspective
Roopashi Khatri | Deccan Herald – 19 June 2018
Abysmal State of India’s Healthcare System
Pattela Omkar Nadh | Deccan Herald – 20 May 2018
Agrarian Distress: What Options do Farmers Have?
Chandni Singh | APPS Blog – 4 May 2018
Building Trust Among Real Estate Buyers
Wasn’t this city made for you and me? Sex workers and their shrinking spaces
Neethi, P, Anant Kamath| The News Minute – 21 February 2018
Charting Bengaluru’s Descent into Urban Chaos through 14 Neighbourhood Maps
More than just a Counting Game
Subjective versus objective well-being in urban India
How to help farmers prepare for climate change
Working on the app-based model
More greenery or better infra?
Roopashi Khatri | Deccan Herald – 8 August 2017
Divya Ravindranath | The Wire – 9 July 2017
As India ages, Indians seeks universal pension from the Government
Kinjal Sampat, Nandini Dey| IndiaSpend – 14th June 2017
Stolen memory: Under the pretext of uncovering hidden history, the BJP is rewriting it
Aditi Dey | Scroll.in – 11 June 2017
Living amidst filth, they clean Bengaluru
Living on the edge: A photo-essay on Bengaluru’s migrant waste pickers
Tanvi Deshpande, Kavya Michael | Citizen Matters – 10 May 2017
Inadequate pensions leave India’s elderly no choice but to work
Kinjal Sampat, Nandini Dey | IndiaSpend – 20 April 2017
There is nothing universal or basic about universal basic in income in India
Kinjal Sampat, Vivek Sharma | The Wire – 5 February 2017
The ‘other’ visa issue: acknowledging the crisis that may be looming for H4 visa holders
Divya Ravindranath | The Wire – 4 February 2017
Experience, Politics and Resistance: Revisiting ‘Hind Swaraj’
Ruchira Das, Vikas Pathak| The New Leam – 04 January 2017
Mind the gap: Indian cities need 18 million houses – even as nine million houses lie vacant
Demonetisation isn’t an inconvenience for poor people – it risks causing a welfare shock
Activity-Based Learning for Communicative Teaching: Study of a Government School in South Delhi
Ruchira Das | The New Leam – 09 November 2017
Envisioning with empathy: Reflections on the Transformative Scenario Planning Methodology
Resilience through caring for nature in times of transition
Conde Nast’s Priyanka Chopra Cover Is More A Product Of Ignorance Than Insensitivity
A city is for all its citizens
How can India spread the joy of reading to all?
Drought, Resilience and Antifragility in Kolar and Mandya
India’s urban fantasy – Deconstructing the real estate myth
Adaptation pathways and maladaptation
How can we enable smart and sustainable cities?
More than ‘AMRUT’, Indian Cities Need Nature-Based Solutions to Revive Themselves
Questions for India this Anti-Street Harassment Week
The Yamuna, a song, and a dance
The Hegemony of English Language in Private Schools in Urban India
Ruchira Das | The New Leam – 07 March 2016
Shared learning for understanding vulnerability
A goal to look forward to on Women’s Day: Safe, accessible public transport
PeriUrban: Is it the Unwanted Child of “Rural and Urban” ?
In Disaster, Bank Accounts Do Not Provide Financial Security
Bombay High Court makes Right to Clean Toilets a Fundamental Right for Women in India
Whose assessment counts? The difficulty of measuring vulnerability
The semi-arid regions of the Moyar-Bhavani basin
Swachh bharat in action: Communities drive the sanitation revolution in Chhattisgarh
Somya Sethuraman | Swarajya – 16 January 2016
In Indian Cities, Women Travel Slow, Men In A Rush
Pooja Rao | IndiaSpend – 8 January 2016
Should Bangalore Aim to Become a Smart City?
Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar | The Nature of Cities – 7 January 2016
Life and water at Rachenahalli lake
Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar| India Water Portal – 22 December 2015
Saving India’s Rivers and Riverine Ecosystems
Jagdish Krishnaswamy | Fundamatics – 10 December 2015
What Farmers Really Need – And It Isn’t ‘Skilling’ Or Relief Packages
Chandni Singh, Devi Kalyani | The Huffington Post – 16 October 2015
Gautam Bhan | Kafila – 1 October 2015
Memory and forgetting in Nellie
Subasri Krishnan | Mint – 22 August 2015
Urban India and its Female Demographic Dividend
Shriya Anand, Jyothi Koduganti | IndiaSpend – 30 July 2015
Urban dualities: A photo essay of Bangalore city, India
AAPs Propagandist Ad Is Speaking To The Delhi Man’s Ultimate Fantasy
Arpita Das | The Huffington Post – 21 June 2015
Why Bangalore’s Sarjapur Road is a tragedy of commons
Amogh Arakali | Daily O – 18 June 2015
Gautam Bhan | The Hindu – 9 June 2015
How noir breeds in Delhi’s ‘hawa-paani’
Arpita Das | Daily O – 30 May 2015
Here’s the secret behind Rajasthan’s sanitation revolution.
Somya Sethuraman | The Wire – 19 May 2015
Urban dualities – A photo essay of Bangalore city, India.
Chandni Singh, Manish Gautam | Asia and the Pacific Policy Society – May 2015
ASSAR’s South Asia team organises AgMIP training with West African support
Amazon’s Aur Dikhao Ad: All Show, No Tell
Rekha Raghunathan | The Huffington Post – 9 April 2015
Why The Vogue Empower Video Did Nothing For Me
Arpita Das | The Huffington Post – 30 March 2015
Gautam Bhan | The Indian Express – 20 February 2015
Thirty-Two Years Later, the Nellie Massacre Remains All But Forgotten
Subasri Krishnan | Caravan – 18 February 2015
Why I spy on people reading books on the Delhi Metro
Arpita Das | Daily O – 18 February 2015
“Disruptive lesser loyalties” in contemporary India
Arjun Srinivas | LSE Blogs – 3 November 2014
Who plans and who lives? Urban planning lessons from Bangalore – Part One
Jayaraj Sundaresan | LSE Blogs – 9 June 2014
Gautam Bhan | Cityscapes – 13 February 2014
A warning to Tropical Mountains
Jagdish Krishnaswamy | Deccan Herald – 29 October 2013
JNNURM and environmental sustainability
Kavita Wankhade | Ideas For India – 30 September 2013
Somya Sethuraman | The Hindu – 26 April 2013
Gautam Bhan | Caravan – 1 February 2013
Urban commons and public interest coalitions: Learning from the restoration of Bangalore’s lakes
Jayaraj Sundaresan | LSE Blogs – 20 August 2012
The Auto-Rakshasa and the Citizen
Gautam Bhan | Kafila – 14 June 2012
Nation In a State: The story of missing toilets
Somya Sethuraman | The Hindu – 27 April 2012
Amlanjyoti Goswami | The Telegraph – 3 February 2012
A new generation of entrepreneurs has to be built
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Understanding the Implications of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Migrant Workers’ Children
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India’s new drone policy is shortsighted. Here’s why
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The kids are all right: An intergenerational tale of living and loving YA fiction
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