Essays on Bangalore

Bangalore has a lot of people and the population has grown a lot in the last five to six years. Bangalore is not a very big city when compared to other cities in India, but the population is very high. When there are a lot...

Cities are “spatial manifestations of broader social forces and struggles”, contained and shaped by their built environment. Industrial capitalist modernity has been the driving force behind city development, and the commodification of ‘place’ has resulted into cities being ‘converted into products to be sold in...

The urban modernisation narrative calls to replace the native urban poor with a new class of people who will uphold the world-city ambitions projected by Bangalore’s government. Indeed, India’s land dispossession and booming property investments are not occurring in its city centres, rather on the...