Cityscapes
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What makes Mumbai’s Regal cinema truly special
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A restaurant menu from 1935 is a reminder of how much Bombay has changed
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How Mumbai’s Art Deco buildings evoke the sea
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Mumbai’s ageing buildings need renovation – not redevelopment
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When reimagining its streets, Mumbai should go beyond mere beautification
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Interview: Mumbai has forsaken Deonar and its communities, although both are critical for the city
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Edward Glaeser on the future of cities: I am more hopeful about India than I am about the US
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How can India meet its ambitious climate targets? With a little help from its cities
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Interview: India is disregarding its traditional water systems in favour of big infrastructure
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How can Indian cities shield vulnerable migrants from climate change? With better affordable housing
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Mumbai: The city that was born of the sea may eventually be consumed by it
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In Mumbai, even the most prudent tree policies often don’t end up making a difference. Here’s why
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Like the rest of Delhi, the pandemic has made me rediscover the joy of picnicking in public parks
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In photos: These Mumbai shrines and sacred sites will be irrevocably altered by Coastal Road project
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Meet the phenomenal 90-year-old who runs Mumbai’s oldest orchestra
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As Bengaluru loses land to concrete, a small initiative wants to remind the city of its green past
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Meet the ‘urban nostalgists’ of Kolkata who are saving its architecture – one old building at a time
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In the shadow of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, an art project is helping homeless women ‘map their lives’
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Step aside, Swiggy and Zomato. WhatsApp is the new way to buy and sell food in Bengaluru
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In the land of Rabindra Sangeet, the underground hip-hop world had a coming-of-age party
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The family that built Delhi’s iconic Khan Chacha is looking to a future away from it
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As lending libraries shut down across India, a plucky chain from Kochi is holding its own
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Why a tiny Hyderabad store with tattered old books has been attracting scholars for decades
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India’s live music hub Mumbai doesn’t have a single big concert venue. Why?
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How a Mumbai scientist helped bring together India’s obsessive record collectors
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Why Kolkata is lamenting the end of a meat shop started by a Hungarian trapeze artist in the 1940s
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Delhi wants to map its residents’ connect with the city with an oral history project
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Music or food: Which is the bigger draw during Chennai’s Margazhi season?
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One man’s long, lonely mission to convince Kolkata that the Sun revolves around the Earth
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From the skies, an architect retraces a century-old survey of Ahmedabad’s City Walls
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What is the one smell that defines Mumbai? A street photographer searches for the answer
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Delhi’s parks and monuments are playing a small role in taking the arts to the people
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Photos: Old Delhi’s architectural heritage has been disfigured by time and modernity
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In Hyderabad, a Loo Café is challenging the poor perception of Indian public toilets
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Architect Charles Correa had foreseen the decline of Indian cities – and pointed some ways out
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Chai migrants: For decades, this region in Rajasthan has been providing Mumbai its tea sellers
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Are robots taking over the world? A restaurant in Chennai serves an answer
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Why Kolkata’s Salt Lake and delivery apps are a match made in food heaven
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Once Delhi’s cultural nerve centre, Mandi House is being challenged by new experimental theatres
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Forgotten history: How the last Nawab of Oudh built a mini Lucknow in Calcutta
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In Bengaluru, the God of Death is giving motorists lessons on saving their lives
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Photo essay: If you look closely, you can still find the ‘Garden City’ in Bengaluru
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How on Earth did a glitzy part of Singapore get the name Dhoby Ghaut?
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As Bengaluru turns into a living nightmare, this app has become an irreplaceable part of it
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In Kolkata, haleem is bringing together communities during Ramzan
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Kaapi-obsessed Bengaluru is fostering a new coffee culture over mochas and lattes
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These rare old guidebooks show why Mumbai is ‘one of the most remarkable cities’ in the world
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How a former officer of the Mumbai police became its most prolific historian
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A hunt for Bengaluru’s forgotten inscription stones is tracing the history of Kannada and the city
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What will Mumbai’s coastal road actually look like? An eyesore, show these architectural projections
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Mumbai’s Premier Padmini taxis are going off the streets – and into art galleries
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In Chennai, a housing controversy reveals the poor state of a memorial for anti-Hindi protesters
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Soldiers’ Garden or Staff Quarters? A historic green space in Pune faces threat from the government
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Sunder Nursery gives Delhi a beautifully restored green space – and a template for heritage
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Chennai’s complicated relationship with its dying rivers, as chronicled by artists
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Before hipster cafes took over Kala Ghoda, its soul was a store that hosted giants like MF Husain
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Charting Bengaluru’s descent into urban chaos through 14 neighbourhood maps
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Video loves the radio star: What makes Malishka one of Mumbai’s favourite people
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Seventy years on, Chandigarh hasn’t lived up to Corbusier’s expectations or Nehru’s boasts
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Lucknow’s nawabi history can still be seen in its stunning heritage architecture – and in this book
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Smiles and selfies: Mumbaikars welcome new air-conditioned trains – but wish the fares were lower
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‘We are harmless and nice’: The Miss Africa Bangalore pageant breaks racist stereotypes
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Bearded hipsters and fisherfolk: An art project is bridging divides at Mumbai’s Sassoon Dock
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Just how bad is Delhi’s pollution? People are driving through smog to grab time in an oxygen chamber
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A theatre group in Bengaluru invited Narendra Modi to watch a play that protests GST
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What happens when some of India’s biggest artists display their work in a tech park?
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This old woman in Delhi hasn’t given up on her 400 strays, even after the civic body razed her home
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By addressing Dear Boys, the Kolkata Police are taking gender sensitisation to the right audience
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To discover the beauty of Delhi despite its smog, you need to walk its lanes and forests like me
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Poor Clares: Why the nuns of this monastery in Kerala only speak for about an hour a day
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A group of women fought for the right to play football. Will Delhi finally let them have some fun?
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Ramnath Goenka bought the Express Estate at this 90-year-old auction house in Chennai
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A watercolour guide to Chennai’s best food, from New Kerala Hot Chips to Shree Krishna Sweets
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Are Bengaluru’s sparrows migrating to its international airport?
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A search for tawaifs in Old Delhi reveals a present that’s not always comfortable with the past
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A pregnant hippo, a constipated rhino and a team in blue: The medical wing of Mumbai’s Byculla zoo
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How Bangalore went from being India’s most liveable city to a dystopia in the making
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After 90 years, Kolkata’s iconic Flurys tea room is going to sneery Delhi and Mumbai
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As curtain falls on a beloved theatre, Bengaluru asks if a cultural space is just real estate
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Madams on Cleaning Duty: In South Delhi, an alternative MCD promises to keep streets garbage free
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At an all-women petrol pump in Hyderabad, ex-cons get to kick-start a new life
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How a dowry death in Delhi gave birth to feminist street theatre in India
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In the narrow lanes of Old Delhi, a unique and flavoursome dialect of Urdu is going extinct
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Why do Mumbai’s hipster cafés and pubs look the same? These architects might have the answer
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‘We are not gangsters, we are artists’: Can Delhi’s Kathputli Colony survive land sharks?
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The stories behind Mumbai’s few green spaces get an illustrated retelling in a nature map
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Appearing trick: P James, the mystery magician who painted his ads across Chennai, reveals himself
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An Instagram project casts a soft light on Mumbai’s charming Ballard Estate
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‘This is how queens are, this is how I am’: Behind the scenes at Chennai’s first drag show
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The endangered trees of Mumbai’s Aarey Colony are speaking up against deforestation
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‘We’re doing social work’: The twists and turns in the lives of Bengaluru’s roadside dentists
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A scooter-riding bookseller has served Kolkata better than Amazon could ever hope to
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Hyderabad’s Human Library treats humans as books that can be ‘borrowed’ for 30 minutes
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‘No one eats non-veg openly here’: Ahmedabad’s food lovers on the city’s cultural aversion to meat
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A farewell to Delhi’s Regal Cinema, the birthplace of the city’s LGBTQ movement