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city portraits

  • How does urban violence co-opt the state? Laurent Gayer’s classic study of Karachi has some answers

    Nov 28, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • How Delhi has been written over the years in novels and in stories (and essays)

    Feb 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • A love for sweets and fascism: The history of Bombay’s iconic cake shop Monginis

    Apr 21, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • How do you visually capture Bengaluru without showing its landmarks? Hint: With zombies and murders

    Mar 16, 2017 · 03:30 pm
  • Is Dadar, Mumbai’s first planned suburb, becoming hipster cool? (And at what cost?)

    Feb 20, 2017 · 12:08 pm
  • Was Ahmedabad’s founder Ahmed Shah a wise ruler or an ambitious tyrant?

    Jan 19, 2017 · 03:30 pm
  • Deep in the Amazon jungle, Brazil’s ‘invisible cities’ are in crisis

    Oct 31, 2016 · 11:30 pm
  • ‘Every day was a party’: When a commune by the sea fed and housed film strugglers

    Sep 04, 2016 · 01:30 pm
  • Hauz Khas hipsters, Def Col dudes and other denizens immortalised by a Delhi artist

    Sep 09, 2014 · 05:30 am