Madhuri Kamat | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 26, 2019
Five women gather in a room in the office of Hasiru Dala to talk of the life spent wastepicking. Chinnapillai (70), Sharada (60) and Aniyamma (58) have been at it for 45 years, Lak...
Shreyas Sreenath | Region Asia-Pacific | Dec 05, 2016
Important as are the standard measures of a community… its measure of value is by far the most important of them all. The measures of weight, extension, or volume enter only into...
Hasiru Dala invites you for Waste Narratives being organized at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Alternative Forum and Azim Premji University (Dates and Timing Mentioned Bel...
Notes from Nayandahalli Historians have always been interested in cities and their resource inflows. They rarely ventured out from their comfort zones and talked about outflows. Ro...
Pinky Chandran | Region Asia-Pacific | Oct 05, 2015
“Nayandahalli, 25 years back was jungle. There was no electricity, water, or roads. On a vacant plot, the landlord gave us permission, and we put up a hut, as my husband found ...
Notes from Nayandahalli ‘Cities are engines of growth’ is an old cliché statement. For economic growth and well being of mankind they consume the resources sourced from farawa...