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Volume 003

City

Welcome to Our Imagination

October 2021

This edition brings together those that dream of cities, those who live in cities, and those who build cities. It carries a forensic interest in narratives that cities allow for, and also those it erases. It develops knowledge around lives exploring desire, and identity, self-determination and adventure, and the structures that make these explorations uncertain.

Latest Posts

Praxis

July 29, 2022

Mind Map: Internal Cities

TTE Team

Srija’s Mind Map is imagined by Devika Sundar, an artist who works with art as a restorative, meditative medium, to express collective themes of invisibility, illness, memory and impermanence within personal and shared human experience.

Bolti Kahaniyan, Podcasts

July 7, 2022

Bolti Kahaniyaan Ep 4: Tum Kiski Ho Binni

Sadia Saeed

In this episode of Bolti Kahaniyan, Swati Kashyap narrates a transcreation of Maitri Pushpa's story ‘Tum Kiski Ho Binni?’. When Binni's mother becomes pregnant after having given birth to two girls, everyone believed that it would be a boy but instead, it was Binni. This is what happened next.

Pedagogy

July 5, 2022

A Simple Primer to Understand Complex Ideas About Sex Work in India

Astha Bamba

On May 19, 2022, a bench of the Supreme Court of India issued a directive recognising sex work as a profession, wherein the practitioners of sex work shouldn’t be penalised, harassed, incarcerated or punished if they are consenting adults.

Praxis

July 1, 2022

The Gifts of the City Come with Strings Attached

Srija U

I learnt the verbal construction of grammatically correct English sentences for the first time in Class IV when my friends secretly chuckled at my mispronounced words. Until then, I hadn’t realised that my excessive knowledge of Tamil had done nothing to win them over. The convent school in my small town seemed to like my English; what happened along the way?

Praxis

June 28, 2022

Filming Cities

Subasri Krishnan

Lists, of any kind, are subjective and offer only a partial view. Given the rich history of non-fiction films in India on the urban - across time and geography - condensing them into a list will always be an incomplete task.

Structure

June 14, 2022

Does India really live in its villages?

Shabani Hassanwalia

In Part One of this two-part conversation with The Third Eye, Bhan discusses the making of the ‘urban’ in policy versus reality, the lack of identity for the urban poor, what urban practitioners should have learnt from the Covid pandemic, and the great disruptor entering urban studies—the Anthropocene.

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