Urbs IndisForest FiresThe Forest Survey of India has satellites passing over India 6 times a day, reporting in real-time forest fires. The current season…Apr 22, 2020Apr 22, 2020
Urbs IndisDolvi’s Doldrums and Fayazuddin’s Lock-inNestled on the banks of the Amba River is JSW’s Dolvi plant, which houses one of the steel conglomerates four blast furnaces in India…Apr 20, 2020Apr 20, 2020
Urbs IndisWater in JharkhandWhen I visited Ranchi in 2016, little did I know she was in the midst of an affair with water scarcity that would linger for years. The…Apr 18, 2020Apr 18, 2020
Urbs IndisLouis Kahn and the Great DepressionWhat Impact will Coronavirus (and the concurrent global recession/depression) have on Architecture in India?Apr 17, 2020Apr 17, 2020
Urbs IndisCoimbatore Central PrisonCoimbatore is one of the shadiest places in India to commit a crime necessitating imprisonment. Spread over 167 acres, the late 19th…Apr 16, 2020Apr 16, 2020
Urbs IndisM East WardM East Ward in India’s Financial Capital, Mumbai, is one of the most lethal peace-time neighborhoods in the world. If an entire Ward could…Apr 15, 2020Apr 15, 2020
Urbs IndisSambhar Salt Lake, RajasthanOnce upon a time, on an early morning flight from Mumbai to Delhi, the pilot rattled two hundred groggy passengers and me with the…Apr 14, 2020Apr 14, 2020
Urbs IndisHar (Hathi) ki Pauri, HaridwarThe coronavirus is upending life, and death, in India. Haridwar, an abode of 400,000 living souls on the banks of the Ganga River in…Apr 13, 2020Apr 13, 2020
Urbs IndisGurugram*Gurugram and bad air go together like guru and gram. According to a Greenpeace report published in February 2020, there are annually…Apr 12, 2020Apr 12, 2020
Urbs IndisCoronavirus and Language in MumbaiLet us virtually defy the lockdown and allow our imagination to journey north on LBS Marg (seen above in the Kurla segment). As we…Apr 11, 2020Apr 11, 2020