Smruti Koppikar
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
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- Aug 27, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Listening To The Land, Water And Trees In City-Making (opens the original)
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In the making of a city with tall towers, wide expanses of commercial areas, swanky gated complexes and retail outlets, metro networks and airports, complete with busy thoroughfares, traffic congestion, and ceaseless neon signs, what do the trees, water, and the land that have stood there for centuries say? This is a question that governments, planners and private capital hardly ever pause to think about and reflect upon. Their approach and motivation to planning and building a city are driven b
On Public Land As Public Asset, A Few Questions For The BMC (opens the original)
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Your handling of land and land-related issues in Mumbai is getting more and more confusing, opaque and illogical by the day. The saying is that the left hand does not know what the right does, but, in your case, it seems that both hands know perfectly well what’s being done and why; it’s only us, the people of Mumbai, who are deliberately kept in the dark or confused. So, here are a few questions. How, in what role, do you see yourself vis-à-vis public land in the city? Ideally, and legally, you
Reclaiming The Right To Protest And The Right To Public Spaces (opens the original)
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For several days last week, the usually peaceful precinct of Shivaji Park turned into a boisterous space of resistance and slogans, police action and pushback. Thousands of young people, mostly students but others too, gathered there to join the protests against the NEET exam paper leak, the CBSE marks scandal and the general rot in the education system. The low parapet of Shivaji Park offered a view of its vast brown ground and, equally, allowed the protesters to climb over it when the lathis c
There Are Two Conversations About Mumbai, Which One Do You Hear? (opens the original)
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There are two conversations happening in Mumbai, about Mumbai, at any time. They are equally familiar to anyone who lives here; the words and phrases are well worn, and the content is known, but the two hardly have any points of convergence. It’s almost as if they are about two different, diverse cities. In between them, in that wide chasm, millions of people struggle to live and work every day, unsure if they will see the end of the day alive or as a corpse in some wretched corner, a manhole dr
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