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The Quiet Cities
Six pieces on how urban places are governed, drained, repaired, and argued over.
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Travel
Chennai Is Rebuilding Its Storm Drains. Again.
The fourth programme since 2015, and the first to publish its own failure conditions.
Governance
Why the Night Bus Came Back
Two years after it was cut, and for none of the reasons anyone predicted.
Governance
“The beautiful part is year six”
Balakrishnan Nair on an apprenticeship nobody has time for.
Administration
A Resolve to Put the Light of Dreams in Little Hands: Collective Efforts Towards a Child-Labour-Free
A government's clear goal is a bonded- and child-labour-free state; but the law alone was never going to be the part that worked.
Literature
Environmental Conservation: A Resolve for an Era; The Future’s Pulse in Every Drop of Water
A campaign built on the idea that water conservation is a public movement, not a government scheme - and a personal account of what reviving one river actually took.
Philosophy
Madhya Pradesh’s Elephant Population on the Rise: 100 Elephants Find Permanent Habitat After 100 Years
A century after the state's wild elephant population fell to zero, herds are returning from Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand; and Bandhavgarh is where they're staying.
Literature
Assam Floods: Natural Disaster Turned into Mafia-Made Catastrophe
A flood-control record already strained by geography and dam-building without basin-wide assessment; and, in Upper Assam this July, an added allegation: organised illegal mining upstream.
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