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Urban fires remain among the most significant yet underreported disasters in the Global South, with informal settlements facing disproportionate risk. In India, the factors that shape household resilience to fire remain underexamined.
Join us on Tuesday, 27th October at 3:45 PM IST for a Special Milestone 200th Urban workshop on "Determinants of Household Resilience to Fire in Informal Settlements: Evidence from the Bastis of Delhi, India" by Satorupa Karmakar, PhD Candidate, UQIITD Research Academy (University of Queensland–Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), co-organised with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi).
Based on 253 households surveys across 30 bastis in Delhi, this workshop will look at different factors that shape household resilience to fire, including prior experience, economic conditions, social support and sense of place.
Register to attend in person: forms.gle/WpXFteXfXFxBh4vKA
Register to attend via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
IMPORTANT: EVENT UPDATE
The symposium “Revisiting the Partition of 1947: History, Memory, and Remembrance”, scheduled for 13 October 2026, has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances.
The symposium has been postponed, not cancelled. A revised date will be announced soon. Existing registrations will remain valid, and registered participants will receive updated details by email.
We regret any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We look forward to welcoming you to the symposium on the rescheduled date.
How do people and communities move beyond histories of rupture to rebuild lives, relationships, and possibilities of living together?
The Partition of 1947 was more than a political and territorial division. It ruptured communities, identities, cultures, relationships, and ideas of home and belonging.
Nearly eight decades later, its violence, displacement and memories continue to shape the social and political imagination of the subcontinent. How is Partition remembered across generations, and how do these memories shape the ways we understand history, identity and belonging?
The Centre for Policy Research invites you to ‘Revisiting the Partition of 1947: History, Memory, and Remembrance’, a symposium that brings together perspectives from journalism, political science, historical research and the study of memory to reflect on the legacies of Partition and the possibilities of living together beyond histories of rupture.
The symposium will feature Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, Chairman of Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (@ignca_delhi), Ministry of Culture, Government of India (@MinOfCultureGoI); recipient of Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, as Chief Guest.
The speakers include Lady Kishwar Desai, Chairperson of Arts & Cultural Heritage Trust, Partition Museum (@PartitionMuseum) (Amritsar and Delhi); Vivek Shukla, Senior Journalist; Professor Rekha Saxena (@ProfRekhaSaxena), Senior Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, Delhi University; and Souradeep Banerjee (@banerjeeakash33), Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Temple University, USA.
The event is being curated by Ashwani Kumar (@Ashwanitiss), Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR.
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 | 4 PM IST onwards
The event will be held at the CPR office (Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi) and online over Zoom.
Register here to attend in person: forms.gle/B1RtM3yKayZCE9kr9
Register here via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
IMPORTANT: EVENT UPDATE
The symposium “Revisiting the Partition of 1947: History, Memory, and Remembrance”, scheduled for 13 October 2026, has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances.
The symposium has been postponed, not cancelled. A revised date will be announced soon. Existing registrations will remain valid, and registered participants will receive updated details by email.
We regret any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We look forward to welcoming you to the symposium on the rescheduled date.
Register now. Limited seats only.
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How do people and communities move beyond histories of rupture to rebuild lives, relationships, and possibilities of living together?
The Partition of 1947 was more than a political and territorial division. It ruptured communities, identities, cultures, relationships, and ideas of home and belonging.
Nearly eight decades later, its violence, displacement and memories continue to shape the social and political imagination of the subcontinent. How is Partition remembered across generations, and how do these memories shape the ways we understand history, identity and belonging?
The Centre for Policy Research invites you to ‘Revisiting the Partition of 1947: History, Memory, and Remembrance’, a symposium that brings together perspectives from journalism, political science, historical research and the study of memory to reflect on the legacies of Partition and the possibilities of living together beyond histories of rupture.
The symposium will feature Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, Chairman of Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (@ignca_delhi), Ministry of Culture, Government of India (@MinOfCultureGoI); recipient of Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, as Chief Guest.
The speakers include Lady Kishwar Desai, Chairperson of Arts & Cultural Heritage Trust, Partition Museum (@PartitionMuseum) (Amritsar and Delhi); Vivek Shukla, Senior Journalist; Professor Rekha Saxena (@ProfRekhaSaxena), Senior Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, Delhi University; and Souradeep Banerjee (@banerjeeakash33), Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Temple University, USA.
The event is being curated by Ashwani Kumar (@Ashwanitiss), Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR.
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 | 4 PM IST onwards
The event will be held at the CPR office (Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi) and online over Zoom.
Register here to attend in person: forms.gle/B1RtM3yKayZCE9kr9
Register here via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Can the Delhi Master Plan-2047’s provision for the consultative preparation of Parking Area Management Plans (PAMPs) pave the way for the speedy implementation of paid residential parking in Delhi?
Pushpa Pathak (Senior Fellow, CPR) takes a look.
Read:
hindustantimes.com/opinion/d…
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𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
The Melbourne Global Centre- Delhi, University of Melbourne, and the Centre for Policy Research's TREADS initiative, will host an invite-only Roundtable Dialogue on 6 October 2026 at the Melbourne Global Centre, Delhi (1st Floor, DLF Capital Point, Baba Kharagh Singh Margh, New Delhi), from 10:30 AM IST onwards.
This roundtable will bring together experts from India and Australia to exchange experiences on interstate river water cooperation in federal settings.
The discussion will compare Australia's Commonwealth-led Murray-Darling approach with India's river boards, authorities, tribunals and bilateral agreements between states, and ask what each approach offers as climate variability intensifies.
Framing the discussion:
1) Dr Srinivas Chokkakula, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi
2) Prof. Dr Erin O'Donnell, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne Law School
3) Emma Carmody PhD, Co-founder and Director, Restore Blue
4) Dr KE Seetha Ram, Asian Development Bank Institute Fellow
The roundtable will be moderated by Prof. Piyush Tiwari, Professor of Property, University of Melbourne.
Key questions will include: the role of courts and tribunals, the strength of institutions built through negotiation, and how arrangements can adapt as scarcity deepens.
*Kindly note: This is an invite-only event.
How do people and communities move beyond histories of rupture to rebuild lives, relationships, and possibilities of living together?
The Partition of 1947 was more than a political and territorial division. It ruptured communities, identities, cultures, relationships, and ideas of home and belonging.
Nearly eight decades later, its violence, displacement and memories continue to shape the social and political imagination of the subcontinent. How is Partition remembered across generations, and how do these memories shape the ways we understand history, identity and belonging?
The Centre for Policy Research invites you to ‘Revisiting the Partition of 1947: History, Memory, and Remembrance’, a symposium that brings together perspectives from journalism, political science, historical research and the study of memory to reflect on the legacies of Partition and the possibilities of living together beyond histories of rupture.
The symposium will feature Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, Chairman of Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (@ignca_delhi), Ministry of Culture, Government of India (@MinOfCultureGoI); recipient of Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, as Chief Guest.
The speakers include Lady Kishwar Desai, Chairperson of Arts & Cultural Heritage Trust, Partition Museum (@PartitionMuseum) (Amritsar and Delhi); Vivek Shukla, Senior Journalist; Professor Rekha Saxena (@ProfRekhaSaxena), Senior Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, Delhi University; and Souradeep Banerjee (@banerjeeakash33), Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Temple University, USA.
The event is being curated by Ashwani Kumar (@Ashwanitiss), Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR.
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 | 4 PM IST onwards
The event will be held at the CPR office (Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi) and online over Zoom.
Register here to attend in person: forms.gle/B1RtM3yKayZCE9kr9
Register here via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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Is PM Modi at his weakest? And, what does the future protends?
Enjoyed this long conversations with @NilanjanUdwin
that covered 25 years of Modi, Hindutva versus welfare,
SIR & INDIA alliance strategy, UP 2027 elections
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=AyUKhEAk…
What happens when organising inside the factory becomes difficult in a sector shaped by footloose capital? Where, then, do garment women workers come together to build collective relationships in contemporary Bengaluru?
On 29 September, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), along with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi), hosted a discussion on "City and Labour Action: Organising in Bengaluru's Garment Factories" with Dr Swathi Shivanand, PhD (Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Manipal Institute of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (MILHS), MAHE, Bengaluru, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru) as the speaker.
The discussion looked at how garment work has changed across Bengaluru and what this has meant for women workers. It also explored how assembly-line production, migration and first-time industrial work have shaped their everyday lives, the possibilities for organising.
To find out more about the workshop.
WATCH
youtu.be/Ti7KArGc9sg
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
The Melbourne Global Centre- Delhi, University of Melbourne, and the Centre for Policy Research's TREADS initiative, will host an invite-only Roundtable Dialogue on 6 October 2026 at the Melbourne Global Centre, Delhi (1st Floor, DLF Capital Point, Baba Kharagh Singh Margh, New Delhi), from 10:30 AM IST onwards.
This roundtable will bring together experts from India and Australia to exchange experiences on interstate river water cooperation in federal settings.
The discussion will compare Australia's Commonwealth-led Murray-Darling approach with India's river boards, authorities, tribunals and bilateral agreements between states, and ask what each approach offers as climate variability intensifies.
Framing the discussion:
1) Dr Srinivas Chokkakula, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi
2) Prof. Dr Erin O'Donnell, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne Law School
3) Emma Carmody PhD, Co-founder and Director, Restore Blue
4) Dr KE Seetha Ram, Asian Development Bank Institute Fellow
The roundtable will be moderated by Prof. Piyush Tiwari, Professor of Property, University of Melbourne.
Key questions will include: the role of courts and tribunals, the strength of institutions built through negotiation, and how arrangements can adapt as scarcity deepens.
*Kindly note: This is an invite-only event.
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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
In person or register online us.list-manage.com/CG01eBKN2…
Happening today.
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).
Register to attend via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Register to attend in person: forms.gle/FJJiJRZQiUyj2ThW8
Infinite scrolling, autoplays, personalised feeds, and notifications have become ordinary parts of life. Yet these features profoundly shape the conditions under which users make choices.
On 25 September, the Centre for Policy Research and @BMLUniv hosted the inaugural lecture for the ‘Delhi Public Law Forum’ (a series of conversations on law, society, and public discourse) on “The Addictive Design of Social Media Platforms: Law and Policy Challenges”. The lecture explored what happens when a platform's architecture becomes as important as the content it carries.
The discussion featured @apar1984 (Founder Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation & Lead Counsel at the Law Offices of Apar Gupta) as the speaker, Vikas Kathuria (Professor at the School of Law, BML Munjal University and Head of the Centre on Law, Regulation and Technology (CLRT)) and Lawrence Liang (Professor at the School of Law, BML Munjal University) as discussants, and Shardool Kulkarni (Assistant Professor at the School of Law, BML Munjal University) as the moderator. The session began with the keynote address by Srinivas Chokkakula, President & Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research.
Watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=5qaKOZFI…
Happening Tomorrow.
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).
Register to attend via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Register to attend in person: forms.gle/FJJiJRZQiUyj2ThW8
Happening Today.
How much of our scrolling is really a choice?
A recent petition before the Delhi HC has put the addictive design of social media platforms under scrutiny, calling for a policy to address “engagement-maximising” and “addiction-causing” design features.
The Centre for Policy Research and @BMLUniv, invite you to the inaugural lecture of the Delhi Public Law Forum (a series of conversations on law, society, and public discourse), happening on 25 September, Friday at 4 PM IST onwards on 'The Addictive Design of Social Media Platforms: Law and Policy Challenges.'
The discussion will feature
@apar1984 (Founder Director of the @internetfreedom), Lead Counsel at the Law Offices of Apar Gupta), as the speaker.
Vikas Kathuria , Professor at the School of Law, BML Munjal University and Head of the Centre on Law, Regulation and Technology (CLRT) and Lawrence Liang, Professor at the School of Law, BML Munjal University as discussants.
Shardool Kulkarni shall be moderating this session.
The talk will be held in a hybrid format, at the CPR Conference Room and online via Zoom.
Attend via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Attend in person: forms.gle/bPDogTjWsJzeLmfa9
Happening tomorrow.
How much of our scrolling is really a choice?
A recent petition before the Delhi HC has put the addictive design of social media platforms under scrutiny, calling for a policy to address “engagement-maximising” and “addiction-causing” design features.
The Centre for Policy Research and @BMLUniv, invite you to the inaugural lecture of the Delhi Public Law Forum (a series of conversations on law, society, and public discourse), happening on 25 September, Friday at 4 PM IST onwards on 'The Addictive Design of Social Media Platforms: Law and Policy Challenges.'
The discussion will feature
@apar1984 (Founder Director of the @internetfreedom), Lead Counsel at the Law Offices of Apar Gupta), as the speaker.
Vikas Kathuria , Professor at the School of Law, BML Munjal University and Head of the Centre on Law, Regulation and Technology (CLRT) and Lawrence Liang, Professor at the School of Law, BML Munjal University as discussants.
Shardool Kulkarni shall be moderating this session.
The talk will be held in a hybrid format, at the CPR Conference Room and online via Zoom.
Attend via zoom: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Attend in person: forms.gle/bPDogTjWsJzeLmfa9
How can India make interstate river water dispute resolution more effective?
The Transboundary Rivers, Ecologies & Development Studies (TREADS) Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research is organising ‘Practitioners’ Forum 6: Water Disputes and Resolution’ at the 9th @IIWW_Official 2026 (@DoWRRDGR_MoJS)
The session examines the limitations of tribunal-based adjudication and explores the role of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in resolving differences between states before they escalate into prolonged legal disputes.
The panel will be chaired by Dr Srinivas Chokkakula (President & Chief Executive, CPR) with Mr P.Dorje Gyamba (General Manager, Godavari River Management Board) as Co-Chair and Dr Chandra Bhushan Kumar, IAS (Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, GOI) as Keynote Speaker.
Other panelists include: Mr Kishore K Lahiri (Advocate, Supreme Court of India); Mr Ranvir Singh (Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India); Mr Ashis Banerjee (Chief Engineer, Central Water Commission); Mr K S Chaitanya (Director, Central Water Commission); and Mr Vivek Kapadia (Chief Engineer (Retd.), Government of Gujarat).
Date: 24 September 2026
Venue: MR 7, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
Time: 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
India’s urbanisation is not only driven by migration to large cities. Smaller settlements are undergoing a parallel, bottom-up transformation through non-farm work, local markets, trade and other dispersed economic activities.
Partha Mukhopadhyay (Senior Fellow, CPR) and Marie-Hélène Zérah (Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR & Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Research for Development, Paris) write in @frontline_india
frontline.thehindu.com/the-n…
