Tag: urbanisation

In Delhi’s Urban Villages, Struggles Change – But Continue Nonetheless

With traditional ways of life intermingling with a more urban landscape, problems of educational access, water resources and more continue.

Demarcated during British rule and largely ignored now, residents of villages in the national capital have been dealt with an unfair hand.

Gender-based social roles, lack of economic agency, caste structures and restricted access to healthcare shape women’s experiences of polluted air.

"The traditional lifestyle is no more irrational and arbitrary because the 'new normal' is the old customary."

Ladakh is developing rapidly, but sadly it's also losing its defining beauty.