Context Unprecedented flood situations occurred in many cities of the country and the world this year, severely affecting urban life. Today urbanization has become synonymous with the conversion of cultivable lands and commons into dense webs of concrete and asphalt and their transfer to private...
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Riverfront: How Ahmedabad Lost Sabarmati
Now Released: Please watch it here About The Film More than a hundred riverfront projects have already been planned in different Indian cities situated on rivers. These projects claim to transform riverbanks into recreational spaces for the public and to ‘beautify’ the urban rivers. The...
[Applications Closed] Call for Application: Nagar-Nadi Fellowship
[Applications for the Nagar-Nadi Fellowship are now closed. Please keep subscribe to our website for future updates.] About the fellowship People’s Resource Centre (PRC), an independent research organisation based in Delhi, is conducting research on infrastructure development on riverbanks in Indian cities, with a particular...
Emerging Fronts and Dwindling Ganga
A Preliminary Report on Patna Riverfront In recent years, a new generation of river-related developmental projects has received a strong push from central and state governments. After dubious claims of success in riverfront development projects on the Sabarmati river, the policymakers are now ready with...
Sinking Cities: River, City and Politics of Water
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...
Delhi and Its ‘Unseen’ Fisherfolks
[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...
यमुना के कछार पर खेती की गतिविधियाँ
To read this booklet in English, please click here. पल्ला गाँव से दिल्ली को यमुना का साथ मिलता है | पल्ला गाँव से लेकर बुराड़ी तक देहात का इलाका है और पुश्ता के दोनों तरफ खेती होती है | पुश्ता के भीतर की जमीन यानि...