Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BHATIA Akriti
In the age of platform capitalism, with skewed and anti-worker algorithms operating as digital bosses, Rajasthan’s new law could possibly play a role in taming these bosses and paving the way to imagine open-sourced, worker-owned platforms and digital commons with fairer and humane labour (...)
, by HAFIZ Asma
Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in many Indian cities.
On a cold November morning, in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, a group of sanitation workers sit huddled together and seek warmth from a fire burning closeby. (...)
, by GroundXero
On 3rd January, 2022, over 2000 slum dwellers, mostly women, gathered to meet the press in Bhubaneswar to bring to public attention, how the policies and statutory rights acknowledged by the Odisha state government for slum redevelopment are not implemented in any measure on the ground. (...)
, by NAQVI Saba
There is a great dignity in the stoic march of India’s workers as they leave India’s national capital, one of the world’s most populated cities, and head to their villages hundreds of miles away. It is the relatively healthy that have decided to walk their way out of joblessness and impending (...)
In conversation with urban planner and architect Sadiq Zafar on the housing provided under the Kanshiram Shahri Garib Awas Yojana in Gonda.
Sadiq Zafar, an urban planner and architect, was horrified when he visited houses built under the Rs 28 crore (Rs 1.75 lakh for each housing unit (...)
, by DENNIS Subin
Mass housing projects in Solapur, India, prove that the sheer strength of workers’ sustained movements, with the cooperation of governments, can deliver results.
“Earlier we used stay in a small hut in a slum in Shastri Nagar, Solapur city. When it rained, the hut used to leak, and there (...)
, by The Wire (IN)
A recent report shows that forced evictions in Indian cities have led to massive homelessness in 2017 even as the government’s record of resettling the poor and providing affordable housing remains abysmal.
New Delhi: A new study reveals that infrastructure development drives carried out (...)
, by PUTZ Ulrike
The story of the National Association of Street Vendors in India: A Case Study by Arbind Singh and Sachin Kumar
India without its street vendors would be unthinkable. From their rickety sidewalk stands, open-air cooks feed the nation.
Vendors selling everything from vegetables, saucepans (...)
, by SEN Suhit K.
The Rajarhat story is fundamentally a story of displacement, loss of livelihoods and ecological degradation brought about by the Left Front government in cahoots with a real estate mafia allied with business interests. So what’s new? There is something new about the story of the building of a (...)
, by SENGUPTA Amit
That’s what we are, Hoo Ha India, superpower nuclear India, floating on public spectacles of yellow swimming pools of male piss, with condemned rivers of chemicalised filth and tonnes of garbage scattered like testimonies of greatness.
Delhi,
So what was wrong when a Dutch embassy (...)
, by HIC-HLRN
Mumbai: YUVA, a partner of HIC-HLRN in Mumbai, has informed us of a brutal demolition in which local authorities have destroyed 5,000 houses in Mandala, Mankurd in Mumbai, and set fire to an entire slum on 9 May 2006.
A police force of 500-700 along with Mumbai Collectorate officials (...)
, by BHADURI Amit, KEJRIWAL Arvind
The last four months have seen two types of demolitions in Delhi - demolitions of jhuggis on the one hand and unauthorised and illegal structures in middle and upper income areas on the other.
Both types of demolitions were ordered by the Delhi high court and the directions were so strong (...)
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