Anuj Behal is an urban researcher and planner working in urban informality, feminist urbanism, housing and civil rights, and spatial inequities. He is a former Urban Fellow at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
The Green Revolution and a dark Punjab
Punjab has paid a price for food security. The use of pesticides and fertilisers has resulted in a number of health issues for the state’s …
Tale of transboundary river conflict: Understanding Kalasa-Banduri dam project
Goa and Karnataka are dependent on each other for their water needs. For the last few years, however, the states have been in a logjam over the …
Smell good, breathe bad: How scented products add to air pollution
Use of hair sprays, hand sanitisers etc emit the same amount of chemical vapours as petroleum from vehicles, even though 15 times more petroleum …
How climate change is affecting the LGBTQIA+ community
Social stigma, higher unemployment and inadequate safe living spaces makes them more vulnerable to environmental catastrophes
India’s water crisis: It is most acute for women
The water crisis is a women’s issue and feminists need to talk about it
Non-binary genders need more visibility in India’s Census 2021
Separating sex and gender in the country’s biggest socioeconomic survey is imperative
How Delhi’s resettlement colonies have set a new standard for peripheralisation
Delhi’s resettlement colonies lie within the framework of a ‘planned city’; yet they receive a treatment separate from planned …
G20 and Delhi: Slum dwellers rendered homeless as city ‘decks up’ for summit
Worse, the government has not proposed a plan to resettle the displaced