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URBANISATION
September 2008	Get ready to foot the bill for makeovers, Dunu Roy, Civil Society Magazine, 01 Sep 2008 Cities tell their own stories, -Santosh Desai, The Times of India, Mumbai, 15 Sep 2008 Waste not, want not, Amrita Kadam & Bhavika Jain, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 01 Sep 2008 India - the waste land, Jaideep Hardikar, DNA, Mumbai, 12 Sep 2008 Municipal solid waste management is better decentralised than not, Mukul G Asher & Harshad Gandhi, DNA, Mumbai, 03 Sep 2008
August 2008	Cash from trash: Firms dig for riches in garbage dumps, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 27 Aug 2008 Oil at $100-an opportunity to turn dumps into plastic mines?, Kate Kelland, MINT, Mumbai, 27 Aug 2008 Landfill site, a CNG spurce?, Chetan Chauhan, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 04 Aug 2008 Ban plastic bags: Court, Harish V Nair, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 08 Aug 2008 New risk: Food grown on sewage, The Times of India, Mumbai, 19 Aug 2008 Going green on the terrace, Joeanna Rebello, The Times of India, Mumbai, 10 Aug 2008 Alternative building technology, Dr. M. R. Yogananda, One India One People, 01 Aug 2008 20 cities give 60% of savings, Sunil Jain, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 08 Aug 2008
July 2008	WASTE MIS-MANAGEMENT: TICKING STINK BOMB, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 11 Jul 2008 Commerce Over The Commons by Shruthi Jagannath, Tehelka Magazine, 12 Jul 2008 Collapse of affordable housing by A. Srivathsan, The Hindu, Chennai, 14 Jul 2008 Who dares trash them? by Bharati Chaturvedi, Down To Earth Magazine, 16 Jul 2008 Journey to the streets by Harsh Mander, The Hindu, Chennai, 13 Jul 2008
June 2008	Our Urban Nightmare by Mir Adnan Aziz, Countercurrents.org, 06 June 2008 War on the poor? by Riccardo Petrella, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 27 Jun 2008 Grassroots movement against Goa's mega builders simmers by Pamela D'Mello, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 25 Jun 2008 Rainwater harvesting law's in place, but who will act on it? by Ashish Sinha & Mahendra Kumar Singh, The Times of India, Mumbai, 10 Jun 2008
March 2008	Challenges of urbanisation , The Hindu, Chennai, 04 Mar 2008 Sale! Sale! Sale! , Isaac Arul Selva, Tehelka Magazine,08 Mar 2008 Urban Blessing Not Urban Blight , Sharit K Bhowmick, Tehelka Magazine, 01 Mar 2008 The crisis of mobility in our cities , Tathagata Chatterji, The Hindu, Chennai, 02 Mar 2008 Urban transport: It's about people,not cars , Sarjit Ramesh, The Deccan Herald,Bangalore, 28 Mar 2008 Cool and green in an architectural desert ,The Business Standard, Mumbai, 12 Mar 2008 UNHEALTHY STATE OF AFFAIRS , Sukhada Tatke, The Times of India, Mumbai, 05 Mar 2008, Protecting an increasingly scarce resource , Ban Ki-moon, The Hindu, Chennai, 17 Mar 2008
February 2008	I Bet I Can , Khursheed Dinshaw, Sahara Time Magazine, 10 Feb 2008 Disconnected connections , V. Benedict Santosh, The Hindu, Chennai, 03 Feb 2008 State of distress, Anhita Mukherji, The Times of India, Mumbai, 22 Feb 2008 Mumbai ranks 3rd among cities in suicide rate, Anhita Mukherji, The Times of India, Mumbai, 22 Feb 2008 Embracing Modernity With Elan , PC Vinoj Kumar, Tehelka Magazine, 02 Feb 2008 Malnutrition among women migrants, Mala Kumar, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 26 Feb 2008 Without a home, Bharat Dogra, The Times of India, Mumbai, 01 Feb 2008
January 2008	What affordable housing takes, The Hindu, Chennai, 03 Jan 2008 Slum rehab builders a front, The Times of India, Mumbai, 26 Jan 2008 Building in tune with, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 12 Jan 2008 Healthcare for urban poor, The Times of India, Mumbai, 14 Jan 2008
December 2007	Urban housing policy ready,The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 01 Dec 2007 The great urban clean-up : An update, Vandana Gombar, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 17 Dec 2007 No Chawls On Hire, Smruti Koppikar, Outlook Magazine, 17 Dec 2007 'Build us homes, or let us build', Sandeep Ashar, DNA, Mumbai, 27 Dec 2007 Mumbai Volcano, The Asian Age, 11 Dec, 2007
November 2007	Landing in trouble, M Antony, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 14 Nov 2007 Dharavi's real estate threat, Down to Earth Magazine, 30 Nov 2007 Delhi, not Mumbai, is India’s biggest city, Udit Misra, MINT, Mumbai, 13 nov 2007 Delhi's Bluelines, Civil Society Magazine, 01 Nov 2007
October 2007	Fix Our Cities, The Times Of India, Bombay, 01 Oct 2007 Cities of the chosen few, Dunu Roy, Civil Society Magazine, 01 Sep 2007 11 desi cities in world's 100,The Times of India, Bombay, 23 Oct 2007 Experts question viability, Shalini Nair, The Times of India, Bombay, 26 Oct 2007
September 2007	Study says slum residents live in sub-human conditions, R.Sujatha, The Hindu, Madras, 03 Sep 2007 Housing the poor , Siddharth Agarwal, The Business Standard, Bombay, 18 Sep 2007 Big mall, big maul ,Shalini Bhutani, The Hindu, Madras, 02 Sep 2007 24x7 Water , Clara Lewis, The Times of India, Bombay, 06 Sep 2007 City blights ,Jagmohan, The Asian Age, Bombay, 07 Sep 2007 JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce , Down to Earth Magazine, 15 Sep 2007
June 2007	India Needs To Build 26,300,Housing Units A Day:NHB The Business Standard, Bombay, 04 Jun 2007 High-rise Eviction, ,Economic & Political Weekly Magazine,23 Jun 2007 Are Slums The Future Of The City?, Elisabeth Eaves, The Times Of India, Bombay, 13 Jun 2007 Moving Forward With The JNNURM Reforms, Om Prakash Mathur, The Business Standard, Bombay, 14 Jun 2007 Urban Renewal To Get $500mn,The Business Standard, Bombay, 07 Jun 2007
April 2007	Sc Reserves Order On Hawkers, Satya Prakash, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 25 Apr 2007 Case For Hawkers, Madhu Purnima Kishwar, The Times Of India, Bombay, 17 Apr 2007 Streets Ahead, Dinesh Mohan, The Times Of India, Bombay, 09 Apr 2007
March 2007	Budget burdens builders, buyers, Raghuvir Srinivasan & N.Ravi Kumar, The Hindu, Madras, 10 March 2007 The Budget and the cities, Om Prakash Mathur,The Business Standard, Bombay, 11 March 2007 Rapid urbanisation is breeding poverty: Study, Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India, Bombay, 31 March 2007 Urban Renewal: At Whose Cost?, Medha Patkar, Simpreet Singh, Economic & Poitical Weekly Magazine, 17 March 2007
February 2007	The poor will inherit the earth. Yes, but how? , Dunu Roy, Hardnews Website, 01 February 2007 Middle Of Nowhere Outlook Magazine, 12 February 2007 Special Slum Zones Swagato Ganguly, The Times of India, Bombay, 23 February 2007 Legit tag for Delhi illegal colonies Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India, Bombay, 09 February 2007 Stolen Acres Sugata Srinivasaraju, Outlook Magazine, 12 February 2007
January 2007	Bulldozing people Nilanjan Dutta, The Times of India, Bombay, 10 January 2007 When people live mostly in the cities David Satterthwaite, The Hindu, Madras, 18 January 2007 Plan to uproot the poor? Sanjay K Jha, Sahara Time Magazine, 20 January 2007 City Lights Jeremy Rifkin, The Times of India, Bombay, 31 January 2007
December 2006	Delhi belly 2021The Telegraph, Calcutta, 04 December 2006 India's biggest private sector township on the cards The Times of India, Bombay, 25 December 2006 Maharashtra draft urban housing policy not enough Down to Earth Magazine, 31 December 2006 Asia Pacific meet adopts `Delhi Declaration' The Hindu, Madras, 17 December 2006
November 2006	Urban housing bomb ticking, Mahendra Kumar Singh, The Times of India, Bombay, 25 November 2006 Can Maharashtra scale the cost skyscraper?, Shashwant Gupta Ray, Tehelka Magazine, 18 November 2006 Simple Solution Won't Do, Amaresh Bagchi and Badal Mukerji, The Times of India, Bombay, 28 November 2006 Imaginary cities, Ashis Nandy, The Times of India, Bombay, 07 November 2006
October 2006	Food First, M S Swaminathan, The Times of India, Bombay, 09 October 2006 Price of success, Sumit Mitra, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 26 October 2006 PM’s mantra: Corporate farming, Devinder Sharma, The Deccan Herald Bangalore, 26 October 2006 PM’s package for farmers provides relief to co-operative banks instead, Girish Kuber, The Economic Times Bombay, 12 October 2006
September 2006	Do we have an urban future?, Barun Roy, The Business Standard, Bombay, 28 September 2006 Cities Of Joy, Dinesh Mohan, The Times of India, Bombay, 28 September 2006 Urban problem worst in 50 yrs , K.T. Ravindran, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 08 September 2006 Mass rage against sealing, three die in violence, Sidhartha Roy & Sobhana K, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 21 September 2006
August 2006	Private factor, Down to Earth Magazine, 31 August 2006
July 2006	Unwilling to change, Rajeev Jayaswal, The Economic Times, Bombay, 14 July 2006 RIL kicks off 'new city' plan, Sabarinath M, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 17 July 2006 Plan panel's shot in arm for builders, Mahendra Kumar Singh, The Times of India, Bombay, 17 July 2006 No place called home, Usha Ramanathan, The Times of India, Bombay, 20 July 2006 The WUF III way, Padma Prakash,The Business Standard, Bombay, 10 July 2006
JUNE 2006	Focus on life in the urban sprawl, Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu, Madras, 21st Jun 2006 World Urban Forum: Pioneering cities bury urban myths, Infochnage Website, 23rd Jun 2006 City populations aet to outnumber country dwellers, Dravid Adam, The Hindu, Madras, 17th Jun 2006 Spare a thought for the urban poor, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 21st Jun 2006
May 2006	SC clean bowls squatters, Dhananjay Mahapatra, The Times of India, Bombay, 10 May 2006 Pushed to the margins, Aman Sethi. Frontline Magazine, 19 May 2006 Mumbai's Medha, Rahul Srivastava, Mumbai Mirror, 17 May 2006 Dressing up the urban crisis, Narendar Pani, The Economic Times, Bombay, 5 May 2006
April 2006	The Law Turns Tyrant, Prem Shankar Jha, Outlook Magazine, 10th April 2006 Bombay dreams, Rajesh Unnikrishnan, The Economic Times, Bombay Shops and slums – a city divided, 1 6th April 2006 Is mixed land use a disaster?, A G K Menon & Dunu Roy, The Economic Times , Bombay, 19th April 2006 Reinventing Dharavi, Nauzer Bharucha, The Times of India, Bombay, 21st April 2006 Divided westand, Rahul Srivastava, Mumbai Mirror, 12th April 2006.
March 2006	Debate goes underground, Alphana Kishor, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 3rd March 2006 Towards planned urban development, Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu, Madras, 13th March 2006 Big city, bright lights, Rahul Srivastava, Mumbai Mirror, 29th March 2006 Time To Think Of 'Intrastructure', Bachi Karkaria, The Times of India, Bombay, 17th March 2006 Where Mumbai Meets: The Rise Of The Phoenix, Kishore Biyani and Atul Ruia, The Economic Times, Bombay, 20th March 2006 Highrise in loose mud, Down to Earth Magazine, 15th March 2006
February 2006	Global gap, Shantanu Nandan Sharma, The Economic Times, Delhi, 12th Feb 2006 Capital confusion, Aman Sethi, Frontline Magazine, 24th Feb 2006 Dharavi set to get a Rs 6-k cr makeover, Girish Kuber, The Economic Times, Bombay, 22nd Feb 2006 Prime land for a song, Seema I Kamdar, DNA, Bombay, 12th Feb 2006 Mumbai to Shanghai for $200bn, Girish Kuber, The Economic Times, Bombay, 2nd Feb 2006 Virtually Reality, Down To Earth Magazine, 15th Feb 2006
January 2006	The economics of real estate, Manoj Pant, The Economic Times, Bombay, 13th Jan 2006 Messy cleaning of MCD mess, Mayank Tewari, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 29th Jan 2006 Free for all in illegal colonies, Amitabh Shukla, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 16th Jan 2006 It's final. Ulhasnagar is out of hammer's way, for 18 months, The Indian Express, Bombay, 26th Jan 2006 Rs 98,00,00,00,00,000, Parikshit Joshi, Mumbai Mirror, 4th jan 2006 Dharavi slum is now realty gold mine, Smita Deshmukh, The Indian Express, Bombay, 30th Jan 2006 Unwanted citizens, Aman Sethi, Frontline Magazine, Bombay, 27th Jan 2006 94,000 Delhiites out in the cold, The Times Of India, Bombay, 13th Jan 2006 Missionary zea l, S V Suresh Babu, Down To Earth Magazine, 31st Jan 2006

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