Today the halls of Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) and Davos reverberate
with optimism that hacking, brainstorming, and crowdsourcing can transform citizenship …

This book examines the middle classes—who they are and what they do—and their
influence in sha** contemporary cultural politics in India. Describing the historical …

The textile and dyeing industries are major sources of environmental water pollution all over
the world. The textile wastewater effluents discharged into rivers often appear dark red …

Recent scholarship has highlighted the central role of India's 'new middle class' in
gentrifying and 'cleaning up'its cities. According to this literature, this class experienced a …

the rest of the city was untouched. In 1978, the worst floods in living memory, a million
people were affected as the river reached its highest recorded level, submerging 70,000 …

Debates about how to respond to climate change have largely focused on the difficulties in
agreeing on national targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By assuming that the …

This article traces the introduction of the category of climate change into the Indian
Himalaya. Climate change emerged as an explanation for recurring incidences of …

On 2 October 1952, marking Gandhi's fourth birth anniversary after his assassination in
1948, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of postcolonial India, launched the …

Since the adoption of policies of economic liberalisation in the 1990s, successive
governments have instituted spatial and social changes that converge around a common …

Acquisition of land and reallocation of previously acquired land for Special Economic Zones
(SEZ) has stimulated protests that provide a terrain for exploring the changing landscape of …