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Everyday City

The logic, decision & actions of a street vendor: a study in Russell Market

October 11, 2018 Kiran Keswani

While there have been attempts to formally plan the growth of a city, this has not proved to be successful in many parts of the world. Informality does play a significant role in several cities,

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Commute

The ordinary & the everyday : street corners at Russell market

November 18, 2016 Kiran Keswani

On the afternoon of 28th april 2014, I had set myself the task of observing two street corners at either end of Noronha road at Russell market in Shivajinagar – a corner at the Broadway

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Education

Changing book cultures, changing neighbourhoods

July 8, 2014 Kiran Keswani

That afternoon, we had been looking for the Durga Book Store in Shivajinagar. I had been told that it might still be there, a bookstore where residents of Frazer town and Benson town had shopped

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Everyday City

The Social Life of a Neighbourhood

May 19, 2014 Kiran Keswani

One thing led to another. I was looking for feedback on sketches of the street life at Russell market and that led to the suggestion: “Why don’t you try meeting Mr.Zaffar Sait? He has been

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Civic

The “Broken Windows” Theory

February 14, 2014 Kiran Keswani

In his book, ‘Sidewalk’, Mitchell Duneier describes the lives of people who “work the street”, the book vendors, the magazine vendors and the ‘men without accounts’ who guard the door to the ATMs on Sixth

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Smile Please

February 20, 2010 City Shutterbug

  Hardships.Children.Smiles.   Picture by Govind Chakravarti  


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