city portraits
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How does urban violence co-opt the state? Laurent Gayer’s classic study of Karachi has some answers
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How Delhi has been written over the years in novels and in stories (and essays)
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A love for sweets and fascism: The history of Bombay’s iconic cake shop Monginis
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How do you visually capture Bengaluru without showing its landmarks? Hint: With zombies and murders
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Is Dadar, Mumbai’s first planned suburb, becoming hipster cool? (And at what cost?)
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Was Ahmedabad’s founder Ahmed Shah a wise ruler or an ambitious tyrant?
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Deep in the Amazon jungle, Brazil’s ‘invisible cities’ are in crisis
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‘Every day was a party’: When a commune by the sea fed and housed film strugglers
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Hauz Khas hipsters, Def Col dudes and other denizens immortalised by a Delhi artist