We are happy to present the second leaflet of our ‘urban farming’ periodical- BeejPatra. BeejPatra provides a space for the urban farming community to present, talk about and propagate different ways in which citizens can make cities beautiful, socially just, more self-reliant, and free. Please...
People’s Resource Centre invites you to an online dialogue on the theme “Sinking Cities: River, City and Politics of water” to discuss how cities can become more responsible towards the rivers. Cities across India are threatened by an extreme water crisis. In recent years, cities...
– Rosamma Thomas [This article was originally published in Countercurrents.org. Link to the original article] Afrin Kale is a farmer with a degree in civil engineering. A resident of Pune city, her five-acre farm is in Pimpalgaon Ghode village of Ambegaon Tehsil of Pune district,...
[This article written by Akshita Rawat was originally published in The Wire. For readability purposes, the text is being reproduced here.] Developmental priorities have played a direct role in the deterioration of the Yamuna and have made it consistently difficult for the fisherpeople to co-exist...
Abstract The process of urbanization is central to the viciously exclusionary and unsustainable trajectory of the dominant developmental model. Urban development guided by linear thinking and extraction-oriented urban planning is pushing for expansion of cities outwards, upwards and downwards, and thus creating newer conflicts over...
दिल्ली की शहरी खेती में विविधता: कौन, क्या और किधर To read this booklet in English, please click here. देश की राजधानी दिल्ली देश का सबसे घनी आबादी वाला क्षेत्र है जहाँ हर एकड़ में औसतन 50 इंसान रहते हैं। योजना बनाने वालों की राय...
To read this booklet in English, please click here. दिल्ली भारत के उन प्रदेशों में शामिल है, जहां खेती में मशीनीकरण की शुरुआत सबसे पहले हुई । इसके बावजूद आज भी कृषि में मजदूरों की जरूरत किसी न किसी स्तर पर होती ही है ।...
To read this booklet in English, please click here. “शहरों की सफाई का बोझा कई नदी-तालाब ढो रहे हैं. मैले पानी से अटे जल स्रोतों में दुर्गन्ध है ऐसे समाज की, जो अपनी सुविधा के लिए किसी भी हद तक जा सकता है… जो अपने...
Beejpatra in Hindi translates as ‘cotyledons’- the part of the seed which nourishes it till it grows its own roots. It also translates as “the original letter”. This Newsletter is an attempt to nourish the germinating hope that cities can be made beautiful. This ‘Beautiful...
