Entries tagged ‘India’
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The World Needs More Slums
In a guest blog post, Indian journalist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar argues that, contrary to their reputation for squalor and crime, slums provide a critical low-cost way for the rural poor to access a better life in cities.
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As a Community’s Trawlers are Sent to Port, Its Bustling Fish Market Dries Out
For the people who live around Kasimedu harbor, a 45-day government ban on deep-sea fishing grinds life to an annual halt, and leaves their one-industry town high and dry.
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Where the New India Rises, a Highway Divides Eras and Economies
In Sriperumbudur, the NH4 highway divides a town: Thatched roofs and mud roads on one side, powerful corporations on the other, with workers moving, sometimes uneasily, between the two worlds.
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Rich and Poor Mingling, Hourly Trash Pickup and Other Radical Visions for Chennai
Children of engineers and waste-pickers playing together was just one of many futures that was transformed from improbable to plausible at Chennai’s recent scenarios workshop.
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Teaching India’s Informal Workers to Fight Their Legal Battles
By training vendors to be paralegals and teaching them how to negotiate in court, the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India is turning informal workers into their own best legal advocates.
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The Delivery Business Booms as Chennai Decides to Stay In
Congestion has made driving to a restaurant in this city a masochistic exercise, but for one group — informal delivery boys — the gridlock is just gravy.
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With Tight Schedules and Early Mornings, Autorickshaw Drivers Set a City’s Pace
The ubiquitous three-wheeled pods that fly through the streets of Chennai operate in a state of organized chaos that keeps the congested city moving.
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From Tea Vendors to Grocers, All-Night Office Shifts Spawn a Nocturnal Economy
As multinational corporations increasingly work through the night, an informal service economy has emerged to sell their employees everything from snacks to household essentials.
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Why Chennai’s Vendors Prefer the Sidewalk to the Mall
For 115 years, vendors have plied their trades near the Lily Pond Shopping Complex. And for just as long, the city has been trying to convince them to go inside.
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