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Why We Need Not Put Up With Roads Dug Up All Over Mumbai

Why We Need Not Put Up With Roads Dug Up All Over Mumbai

Have you met a road, any road, anywhere in Mumbai that has not been dug up? If the venerable Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were to run a...

01.02.2025 6

Free Press Journal

Smruti Koppikar

Corporate 70-90 Hour Work Weeks: A Dangerous Throwback To The Past

India’s corporate leaders risk reversing the hard-fought wins of work-life balance.

18.01.2025 10

Free Press Journal

Smruti Koppikar

Bhopal To Mumbai: Four Decades Of Ignored Air Pollution Lessons

Toxic air persists as India prioritises economy over environment and lives.

04.01.2025 4

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Smruti Koppikar

Shirish B Patel Passes Away At 92: Engineer And Planner Who Left His Imprint On Mumbai's Skyline

As Patel passes into the ages, quietly this Friday morning, it is difficult to acknowledge that there will be significant discussions and debates...

22.12.2024 3

Free Press Journal

Smruti Koppikar

Can We Dare Hope For A More Liveable Mumbai In 2025?

A wishlist for Mumbai’s future: challenges, needs, and the promise of better living. The dream of a liveable Mumbai should not remain a mere...

21.12.2024 8

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: Haze Is A Portent – Both Climatic And Political

Climate change is real — most so for the urban poor who bear the brunt of extreme events despite their carbon footprint being the lowest

06.12.2024 4

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Smruti Koppikar

Ladki Bahin Scheme Brought Autonomy, Can't Substitute Public Investment

The political colour of money ceases to matter when it comes to poor women as welfare, but it evidently shores them up in various ways – and...

25.11.2024 2

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Smruti Koppikar

Three Reasons Mahayuti Won Big: Cash, Caste & Polarisation

When one alliance walks away with nearly 80% of the 288 seats on the wire, as the Mahayuti has done, there are two ways at least to parse the...

24.11.2024 3

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: ‘Manifesting’ A City We Want To Live In, A Government That Thinks Of Us

The Cambridge Dictionary has selected ‘manifest’ as its Word of the Year. I am tempted to turn metaphysical and resort to manifesting a few of my...

22.11.2024 2

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: What We Need To See In Election Coverage As We Head Into The Polls

There are more media platforms, more journalists covering elections, more resources and data; yet the range and depth of issues in election...

08.11.2024 1

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: What Do Memorials Really Convey, And How Much Do We Need Them?

Memorials are, to put it succinctly, a form of making memories or emotions material and tangible through the creation of space

25.10.2024 2

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: The Corporate Hand In Making Mumbai, Then And Now

Mumbai would not have become the city it did if it was not for the generous contributions by the men and women of wealth in its early days

11.10.2024 2

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: Why It Need Not Be The ‘Same Old Story’ Every Time It Rains

Why information management during such calamities is more crucial than it appears is because we are seeing more frequent episodes of intense...

27.09.2024 2

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: Salt Pans For Development Signals Mumbai’s Death By Flooding

This decision turns the tide of the city towards becoming more flood-prone and, therefore, less climate-resistant

13.09.2024 1

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: Give Us Back Our Sea And Our Seafronts, BMC!

Why should sea views be affordable and available only to a select few who can pump in crores into apartments or drive on the coastal road in their...

30.08.2024 1

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: Outrage And Weep, Then Push For Safer Cities And Safer Spaces

How many candles will we light, how many marches will walk in, how many petitions will we sign? How much will we outrage and towards what end?

16.08.2024 2

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Smruti Koppikar

MumbaiNaama: ‘Hawkers Versus Citizens’ Is A False Binary And Failure Of City Planning

Pedestrians and hawkers are all citizens; the problem is not citizens versus hawkers but the failure of the authorities to accommodate both in a...

02.08.2024 3

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Smruti Koppikar