Abdoumaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute) is an urbanist whose work has been central to thinking about African and Southeast Asian cities, notions of urban change and everyday life, infrastructure and politics. He is the author most recently of “City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads”, as well as "For the City Yet to Come: Changing Life in Four African Cities".

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AbdouMaliq Simone | Thinking From And About Cities: Reflections from Jakarta

Excerpts from a lecture by Vidyadhar K. Phatak, Urban Planner at NIAS, IISc Campus, Bengaluru on 8th January, 2010, on India's Urban Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities.

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Vidyadhar K. Phatak | India's Urban Transformation - Challenges And Opportunities

Harsh Mander launches his new book, “Looking Away- Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India" on Friday 24th April, 2015 at IIHS Bangalore City Campus.

Harsh Mander, formerly IAS, is now a social worker and writer. He was a member of the National Advisory Council and special commissioner to the Supreme Court of India in the Right to Food case. He currently occupies the position of Director, Centre for Equity Studies, in New Delhi.

Joining him in conversation is Samar Halarnkar, a journalist for over two decades working at publications like the Indian Express and India Today. He continues as a columnist with Hindustan Times and Mint, writing on social and economic issues, science and technology. Most recently, he was a fellow with the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, where he drew up a blueprint for mobile-phone-based, public-interest journalism model for India.

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Harsh Mandar | Looking Away

IIHS is building India’s first independent National Research & Innovation University focused on the challenges and opportunities of its urbanisation.

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