Chapter Three: How We Accidentally Wandered into an Urban Village
By BAILEY BAERWOLF, 7/03/2016. After 17 grueling hours of flights and about another 5 of struggling to get our hands on a hotel room key, we [...]
Homeland ties, culture celebrations, and overseas policy
By DOUGLAS PIZA, 7/03/2016. The Chinese community in Kolkata celebrated last Sunday (July 26th) the first-all India dragon boat race. The event in Kolkata hallmarks [...]
Contemporary History
By JIALEI TANG, 6/27/2016. The city of silk and beauties, Suzhou has a similar storyline to Hangzhou. Yet, I find it more serene than the [...]
Rural ventures
By LILIANA GIL, 6/22/2016. It took us about two hours to get to Villupuram, one of the villages in Tamil Nadu where the M. S. [...]
West Lake Story
By JIALEI TANG, 6/20/2016. Historically, this is the land of love stories, kings, heroes and mythical beauties (most famously war hero Fanli and legendary Great [...]
Class rains
By LILIANA GIL, 6/20/2016. "Now it poured, a stinging rain. On the high grounds of the liquid city, rich people spoke of the romance of [...]
Transactionality and other experiments
By LILIANA GIL, 6/19/2016. In Mumbai, I had the pleasure of meeting Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty, two urbanists whose work I think opens up [...]
Talking about jugaad
By LILIANA GIL, 6/18/2016. Two very strong narratives prevail in discussions about jugaad - the colloquial Hindi term for quick fixes, hacks, and workarounds - [...]
IT Expressway after 7pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQeIRLxaM4 By LILIANA GIL, 6/13/2016. After 7pm, the IT Expressway in the city of Chennai - the second largest exporter of software in India [...]