From slums to neighbourhoods
On urban upgrading and development
The Hindu / June 2015
Urbanist, writer and activist based in New Delhi. Teaches at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bangalore. Author of In the Public's Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (2016).
On urban upgrading and development
The Hindu / June 2015
Imagining the Indian city in ten years
Mint / February 2017
On cities, citizenship and the "slum"
The Wire / July 2016
On the promise against eviction of the new Delhi government
Indian Express / February 2015
Thoughts on the universalisation of water supply in New Delhi
The Hindu / September 2016
On the effect of demonetisation on the poor
Scroll.in / December 2016
On the Supreme Court and Sec 377
The Hindu / February 2016
Why we need to construct broad responses to violence
Caravan / February 2013
Reflections on sexuality in the contemporary Indian city
The DailyO / July 2017
An interview right after the Supreme Court reversal on Sec 377
The New York Times / December 2013
Urban theory as if place mattered
Cityscapes / February 2014
Thoughts on Delhi University's FYUP
Economic and Political Weekly / May 2013
On urban evictions
Kafila / January 2013
On Urban citizenship, imaginations and aesthetics
Kafila / June 2014
On Pinki Pramanik
Times of India / July 2013
World-Class Cities
Cityscapes / February 2013
Thoughts on the first queer pride in Delhi
Indian Express / June 2008
On Anna Hazare
Kafila / August 2011
Pride and Urban Belonging
Indian Express / November 2012
Evictions at Yamuna Pushta
Tehelka / October 2006
Delhi and the Commonwealth Games 2010
Kafila / October 2010
On Binayak Sen
Hindustan Times / December 2010
Regualarisation and its disconents
Hindustan Times / September 2012
Thoughts on Urban Citizenship
Indian Express / January 2010
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