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Theme: Free Bus Public Transit: Mobility, Justice and the Future of Urban Transit, Call For Contributions for the Urban Kaleidoscope Journal – 6th Edition
September 12, 2025
Urban Kaleidoscope 6th Edition Call for Submissions Theme: Free Bus Public Transit: Mobility, Justice and the Future of Urban Transit The urban landscape is a kaleidoscope of interconnected elements that come together to form vibrant tapestries of city life. Drawing inspiration from this imagery, Urban […]
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Cities, Democracy, and the Question of Rights to Community Resources
September 11, 2025
Cities, Democracy, and the Question of Rights to Community Resources Event Report | 27 August 2025 Organized by PARISAR, People’s Resource Centre (PRC), and Institute for Democracy and Sustainability (IDS) The concept of ‘development’ as it is being presented in metropolises like Delhi today […]
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Reverence and Ruin: The Unequal Memory of Urban Rivers in Delhi
August 19, 2025
Wild sea waves weather the coastlines, while wind in deserts carve mushroom rocks. Rain and frost weather the earth, like glaciers and snow in temperate zones. But the sculpting “effect of running water is felt all over the globe” Perhaps the gradients […]
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Sahibi: A River Promised
August 11, 2025Introduction The Sahibi river originates in the Aravalli hills in Rajasthan, beginning its journey from the Pithampur and Bari Jodi region and winding through Jaipur, Alwar, and Gurgaon in Haryana before crossing into the National Capital Territory of Delhi via the Dhansa border. Once it […] Read More
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Urban Kaleidoscope -Queer and Trans: Experiences of the City, Volume 5, July 2025
August 6, 2025Editorial The urban landscape is a kaleidoscope of interconnected elements that come together to form vibrant tapestries of city life. Drawing inspiration from its captivating imagery, “Urban Kaleidoscope” by People’s Resource Centre is a quarterly journal supporting shifting perspectives on cities. By amplifying the voices […] Read More
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Wrack and Ruin: Eviction Fears of Chilla Khadar Residents
February 21, 2025Five hundred metres away from this residential area of Mayur Vihar, Pocket 4, lies Chilla Khadar, a settlement on the Yamuna floodplains. Around 250 to 300 households across the Yamuna floodplains face their daily struggles against flood, evictions and systemic neglect. Still, the story of […] Read More
Resources for Social Transformation
PRC intends to build conditions and infrastructures so that a fairer, better system emerges out of the existing one. Apart from conducting action-oriented research and community-level interventions, PRC publishes resource material on politics of resource appropriation. PRC is also working towards republishing a series of forgotten/less-known texts of relevance to contemporary movements.
Programmes
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Urban Futures
We synthesize the ideas and scholarly research on alternative models of development, systematize the state of the art, update theories with recent findings... read more
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Infrastructure
While a lot has been researched about land issues and the land relations has been explored and continues to get explored by academicians, journalists.. Read more
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Climate Justice
While the climate change and the consequent threats on existence of life on earth are now getting wider attention, the issue of justice in the climate action remains mostly side-lined. Read more