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The Writing Urban India Fellowship 3.0 Applications are now open! If you are an urban practitioner, PhD candidate, or junior faculty working on the urban question, this is for you.

🚨 Reminder: a new edition of Writing Urban India Fellowship! Hosted by the HUPA, in collaboration with the #WritingUrbanIndia Collective and Urban Studies Foundation, the third iteration will take place at NLSIU. Learn more and apply now: 👉 ow.ly/rXc750UjuJP #UrbanStudies

IIHS Urban ARC 2025 is set to begin in less than 7 days! The three-day conference includes paper presentations and plenaries on urban ecosystems and biodiversity, urban strategies for sustainable futures, urban governance and participation and much more. Take a look at the

1/ How can we rethink cities amid disruption & complexity? At #UrbanARC '25, join Gautam Bhan , Michael Keith & Susan Parnell as they discuss their book, Cities Rethought: A New Urban Disposition. This plenary reflects on their collective work as co-authors.

Three of the four of us on the new book - Cities Rethought -- are talking about it in person in Bangalore but also online on this Friday evening IST. Do join if of interest! Registration, links and info in the post below.

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Looking forward to this!

This will be a wonderful talk - online or in the ooru, hope to see many folks there. Full, free book download link also in the details below!

This is a foundational paper on a new way to think about state capacity I had a chance to read in drafts - well worth a read. Rahul Karnamadakala Sharma, Dan Honig (DanHonig.bsky), and Mekhala - good to see this out!

If you are in Delhi on Friday and this is of interest! I get to chat with the wonderful Mukta Naik on the book.

It took a minute or two (or thousands) to get here but welcome to the newly minted IIHS University :) Follow Indian Institute for Human Settlements for more details over the next few weeks as applications open for 4 new interdisciplinary Masters programmes and the IIHS Doctoral Programme.

Folks: apologies for the late notice but ill health means that this talk must be postponed. Will update with the new date.

Different tack and venue but same spiel :) This Sunday in Delhi, but limited seats and a ticket needed that's redeemable against books. Info all below. Talks in bookstores are the best talks of all.

Interested in the IIHS University’s Master’s programmes but have questions? Join the webinar specially designed to do just that. All our Master's programmes are open to candidates across disciplines, so go ahead and attend as many webinars as you want, before you decide on the

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The next webinar on Friday!

Next in our series of webinars IIHS Institution Deemed to be University/Indian Institute for Human Settlements, this one on the open MA in Urban Studies and Practice.

Applications to our PhD are now open at iihs.ac.in. Personally look fwd to proposals on urban inequalities in all dimensions, social protection, housing, urban theory. Email me if thinking of applying! PhD Info Webinar on June 11, updates at IIHS Institution Deemed to be University /Indian Institute for Human Settlements.