Medha Patkar Around 75,000 homes of urban poor were demolished in 2004-05 in Mumbai, that situation is still infront of our eyes. Not only food and kitchen were thrown on the road but children too. Forget about older and sick, people at that time used to sleep near the dirt…
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Editorial
Idea of a City: Mumbai, Baltimore
The peasants of the country and the government authorities of Mumbai wait for one thing, which has eventually arrived: Monsoon. On one hand, it is the hope of production and on the other it is about destruction and demolition. There has been history of demolition with monsoon in Mumbai. The authorities…
News
Urban Uprising
Occupied, by the people for the people. The 55 acres of land reclaimed by 3200 households in Mankhurd by the slum dwellers, Telephone company’s headquarter occupied by spainish workers and the squatted bank of UK by love activists for the homeless citizens represents the same oppression. The oppression of Unfree…