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TODAY at 3.45 PM IST, at the @CPR_India and CSH urban workshop # 199 join @SwathiShivanand to discuss how workers’ changing relationship with the city and gendered precarities shape their capacity and willingness to organise
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Where does labour organising happen? Inside the factory, among workers, or across the city?
Join us on Tuesday, 29th September at 3:45 PM IST for a workshop on "City and labour action: Organising in Bengaluru’s Garment Factories" by Dr Swathi Shivanand, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Manipal Institute of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, MAHE Bengaluru, co-organised with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH).
Drawing on the history of organising among garment workers in Bengaluru, the workshop will examine how neighbourhoods, workers’ residences and the wider city shape labour action, with particular attention to the organising strategies of the Garment and Textile Workers’ Union (GATWU).
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Next Tuesday Aug. 25, at 3.45PM IST, at @CPR_India & CSH Delhi Workshop # 198 Prof. Preeti Sampat of @kreauniversity will unpack the genealogical relation of land rent to the history of property, caste & capital. Join in person at @CPR_India or register at us.list-manage.com/hMophBiuJ…
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Happening on 19th August.
Why do similar cities deliver very different public services and what role do mid-level bureaucrats play in explaining the difference?
CPR is organising a talk by Bhanu Joshi.
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TOMORROW 28 JULY 3.45PM IST. @CPR_India will be happy to host you in person. If you can't make it, join online.
TOMORROW 28 JULY 3.45PM IST. @CPR_India will be happy to host you in person. If you can't make it, join online.
How did the colonial ideology of improvement shape the urban geography and economy of modern Delhi?
CPR, along with Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi), is organising a talk by Vandini Mehta, PhD. (Architect and Urban Researcher; Co-founder of Studio VanRO and SVR Foundation, New Delhi; Visiting faculty and Professor, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi)
This talk will unpack the urban history of Karol bagh through the lens of the Delhi Improvement Trust (DIT).
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Did you know that Karol Bagh was a planned extension, like Dwarka is today? How was the Delhi Improvement Trust of that time different from today's DDA? To know more, join Dr Vandini Mehta at the @CPR_India & and @cshdelhi.bsky.social urban workshop no. 197 on JULY 28 at 3.45PM
How did the colonial ideology of improvement shape the urban geography and economy of modern Delhi?
CPR, along with Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi), is organising a talk by Vandini Mehta, PhD. (Architect and Urban Researcher; Co-founder of Studio VanRO and SVR Foundation, New Delhi; Visiting faculty and Professor, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi)
This talk will unpack the urban history of Karol bagh through the lens of the Delhi Improvement Trust (DIT).
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Happening Today.
How can zoning policies unlock mixed-use development and enable high-density urban growth?
To unpack this and more, Partha Mukhopadhyay (Senior Fellow, CPR) and Dr. Debolina Kundu (Director, @NIUA_India) will explore these questions in depth as @amda_india conducts a webinar on 'Zoning Reforms for Mixed-Use and High-Density Development.'
The session will be moderated by Sh. K.S. Meena, IAS (Retd.), Director cum Secretary, AMDA
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TODAY AT 3PM IST. What kind of graduates will this rapidly changing world need? What kind of education is likely to produce such people?
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TODAY at 3.45PM. @CPR_India and @cshdelhi.bsky.social workshop #196 on India's newest capital city by @CarolUpadhya of @NIAS_India , a social anthropologist who is intimately familiar with this terrain. If you show up in person, you can enjoy the finest think tank coffee in town
Happening Today!
Mark your calendars.
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This Thursday 4 June 4PM IST
Do City, Hinterland & Watershed interact in #Chennai? Is a more-than-human planning possible? Is the ecology of the watershed compatible with urban hinterlands? Engage with @PArabindoo in person at @CPR_India or online at zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
TODAY at 4PM IST at @CPR_India .
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TODAY at 3.45PM IST. If you join in person at @CPR_India you can enjoy the best think tank coffee in town! If you can't, then please register online at zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
On TUESDAY 26 MAY 3.45PM IST at @CPR_India & @cshdelhi.bsky.social workshop # 195 Shubham Mishra uses archives to show how the natural environment shaped & shapes Delhi's many cities. See more at wohdilli.in/ Join in-person at CPR or online at zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
On TUESDAY 26 MAY 3.45PM IST at @CPR_India & @cshdelhi.bsky.social workshop # 195 Shubham Mishra uses archives to show how the natural environment shaped & shapes Delhi's many cities. See more at wohdilli.in/ Join in-person at CPR or online at zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
For more than a thousand years, Delhi has lived many lives. Kingdoms and settlements have flourished here, glittering with power and promise, only to fall to dust, and to rise again.
What can Delhi's environmental past tell us at a time marked by floods, scarcity, and recurring droughts?
Join us on Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 3:45 PM IST for a workshop on "Hill, Forest, and a River: The Story of a City" by Shubham Mishra (Doctoral Candidate, Faculty ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands), co-organised with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi)
This event will be held in a hybrid mode at the CPR Conference Room and online via Zoom.
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TODAY at 2PM at #WUF13 in #Baku, Multipurpose Hall No. 6, join experts from @CPR_India, @CEPTuniversity, @UNHABITAT, @AHFMag, @OECD, @sciencespo and The Entrepreneurship and Partnerships Lab on Blended Finance and #affordablehousing
In #Baku for #WUF13? Then, don't miss this great session by @CPR_India @ADB_HQ, @UNHABITAT & @UNESCAP Friday 22 May 10AM on rural urban linkages and the urban transformation
Happening NOW! Both DMK & AITC had strong urban voter bases. Are urban voters more fickle? Ask the experts on today's @CPR_India panel
What do these Assembly Elections, especially the sweeping verdicts in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, reveal about India's party system and the trajectory of its democracy?
Join us on Wednesday, 6th May at 5:00 PM IST via Zoom for a panel discussion with Vandita Mishra (National Opinion Editor, @IndianExpress), @vargheseKgeorge ( Resident Editor, Delhi, @the_hindu), @NeelanjanSircar (Associate Professor, @AhdUniv) and @Madhuta (Senior Editor, @livemint). This session will be moderated by @rahul_tverma (Fellow, CPR).
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TODAY at 3.45 PM IST.
@CPR_India CSH Workshop #194 Join in person or on Zoom at cprindia.us9.list-manage.com…
Urban residents across India's coasts inhabit an uncertain geography, complicated by climate disasters and the precarity of livelihoods.
Join us on Tuesday, 28th April at 3:45 PM IST for a workshop on "Architectural Compositions in Uncertain Grounds" by Prasad Khanolkar (Faculty, School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai), co-organised with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH).
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