After ten years of struggle, today, Siddharth Nagar gets legal tap water.  We celebrated this across continents. Friendship and solidarities that keep me going… My heart is so so full Pani Haq Samiti ज़िंदाबाद!!! #righttowater #WorldWaterDay2023

Please join me and Sally Cawood for our upcoming workshop '(Hazardous) Labour and the making of the city' on 23 June at Lancaster Univ. We welcome an expansive framing of labour,infrastructure,urban. Call for Abstracts till 26th May w/ limited funding avbl to support attendance

Putting together a reading list - 'Decolonising Architecture', hosted on the Uni's portal, the aim is to celebrate authors who can be understood as racialised and/or minoritised #diversifyarchitecture #RepresentationMatters Got suggestions? Please share them with me! 💬

Supeeeeerrrrrrr thrilled to see my paper with Sahil Gandhi & Alex Tabarrok in the Journal of Development Economics #JDE sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵👇(1/10)

Pleased to have this paper out, with friend and collaborator Nate Millington. Special thanks to the residents of Cissie Gool House Reclaim the City Ndifuna Ukwazi Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

ICYMI: We're running a helpdesk for PhD applicants across social/political studies. If you're looking for peer feedback in a safe space, we're here! Many thanks to Freya Cumberlidge for lending us a hand. 🔗southsouthmovement.org/projects/ssm-h…

Mumbai based-friends, join us in IIT for a book discussion on newly published Concealing Caste on 10th Nov, 3:30 pm with in-person discussion with the editors K. Satyanarayana and Joel Lee, and legendary writer Urmila Pawar.

So excited to share news of this workshop we're organising in April 2024 with @liquidperson and Rohit Mujumdar. Please share and apply!

Check out "Unmuting the Voice of Caste in Urban Studies" in Economic & Political Weekly. Anant Maringanti & Lalitha Kamath write about the different ways in which questions of caste come up in urban studies while framing the inquiry, doing fieldwork, and while writing and publishing. epw.in/journal/2023/5…

Everything you need to know about i'Local, an urban ideas competition by HUL: the larger idea, what are the themes, where are the sites, and the different ways you can engage with us! Head to our website ilocal-hydlab.my.canva.site for more details! #ilocal

The Indian Government recently issued a safety alert on one of the safest anti-inflammatory drugs, mefenamic acid based on one of the rarest side-effects, virtually unrecorded by Indian pharmacovigilance. In this brilliant article, Shivani Verma reports for The Ken on why

Sitaram Shelar,Paani Haq Samiti, Angel Of Mumbai 2023 : FPJ Felicitates ... youtube.com/shorts/Cjbw00Y… via YouTube

New #OpenAccess special issue article by Purva Dewoolkar, @deljanai, Prof Ali Browne (she/her), Sitaram Leelabai Gangaram Shelar, Elsa Holm and Pani Haq Samiti: Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for #water infrastructure in #Mumbai ow.ly/EUzY50U4ewX

Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space! This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai

My op-ed in today’s The Hindu critiques the per capita water supply standard — highlighting its lack of empirical grounding, objective rationale & validity. thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/… #WaterPolicy #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #India #PublicPolicy #Standards