...Matias Echanove; Rahul Srivastava Eight years ago, architects Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava set up their offices in Dharavi, a homegrown neighborhood in Mumbai. Instead of denigrating Dharavi as a “slum,” Echanove and Srivastava celebrate its vitality and adaptability. They point...

..., and especially one directed at women, is particularly troublesome to Neha. Neha’s first approach is to the IT cell of the Mumbai Police, where an officer directs her to the Cyber Crime Office. After reaching the office, Neha explains her case to a female constable whose first reaction to the entire issue...

...Jeff Roy Jeff Roy is a filmmaker, musician, Fulbright-mtvU scholar, and Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at UCLA, based in Los Angeles and Mumbai. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo: Jeff Roy KOOVAGAM, India—In the middle of India’s...

... comfortable lifestyles. “As an Indian in China, I was constantly amazed by the ostentatious display of wealth, be it in the form of ordering a lot more than one can eat (especially at client dinners) or the Louis Vuitton bags carried by company secretaries,” says Samta Lalan, a Mumbai native who has...

...). This contrasts with the ongoing bloodletting in Mumbai, India’s largest city, where bomb blasts and interethnic riots recur like malevolent monsoons. Mumbai was still recovering from a seaborne attack in 2008 by Islamic militants (toll: 164 fatalities) when extremists struck again this July (toll: 18 fatalities...

... to downtown Beijing is a Daksh, to IBM for $170 million. This deal much more pleasant experience than the was significant for several reasons, including painfully slow crawl along Marina Drive to the fact the business was sold in a cross-bor­ the heart of Mumbai. der transaction, showing the interest...

... Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, the biggest private-sector company in the country. Built at a cost of $2 billion, Ambani’s recently completed 27-floor personal residence in Mumbai is, according to Forbes magazine, the world’s most expensive...

... enforced until the 19th century. Hindu temples display images of deities with many wives. Hindu epics tell narratives of unmarried nymphs, single mothers and fathers, a commune of goddesses, and female-to-male transgender characters. Family values in a Mumbai gated community are different from...

... about Dharavi, an economically productive homegrown neighborhood in Mumbai. They renounce the term “slum” and show how “families and community networks can be the foundations from which a built environment emerges.” In another article, Urvashi Kaul explores the use of Social Capital Credits, a tool...

..., represented by Antwerp and the new world of Mumbai and Shanghai. Players like Goldberg and Laniado had already spotted opportunities that a tax haven and diamond hub like Dubai offered. To understand how the Kimberley Process helped Dubai grow into what Britain’s Scotland Yard believes is the world’s largest...

... explains. We have asked two extraordinary young women—Nazia Vasi, founder of Mumbai-based Inchin Closer, and Li Xin, managing editor of Caixin , the noted Beijing-based financial magazine—to examine their nations’ views of their neighbor across the Himalayas. We then turn to a new feature, a Timeline...

... CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ OF WALES VASTU SANGRAHALAYA MUSEUM Mumbai, India | Renamed in 1995 after the founder of the Martha Empire, 48 years after independence VICTORIA...

.... / Abandoned corridors of the Madras Central Prison pictured in 2009. MUMBAI—When Arun Ferreira went to prison, his family told his two-year-old son that his daddy had gone on a long business trip. That trip lasted four years and eight months. An activist involved with the far-left Naxalite movement...

... Mumbai make up one of Nepal’s highest risk groups for HIV infection—a rate more than five times the national average. Barring any intervention, by 2015 it is thought that 7,000 recently returned Nepali migrants will live with HIV in places like Achham in far western Nepal, while 12,000 more Nepali...

... for World Bank president. Massimo Antonini is an Italian economics fellow at St. Peters College, Oxford. Prithvi Naik is a researcher at Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics, NMIMS University in Mumbai. Neil Britto is a Canadian researcher and executive director of the Intersector Project...

... collective, an online forum launched by Sudhakar Ram, CEO of Mastek, a Mumbai-based IT solutions company. After the meltdown of 2008, Ram found many of his peers quietly acknowledging the flaws of the old game but unwilling to challenge it openly. “Most people still see the need for a new game,” he says...

... before Western science. The 102nd Indian Science Congress held in Mumbai in January 2015, which featured papers by Fields Medal winners and Nobel laureates, had a presentation claiming that Indians had built airplanes some 7,000 years before the Wright brothers. Introducing “Yoga Day” and “Guru Day...

... to the vernacular press. The venerable becoming more frequent. Hindu nationalists old cities of Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta have threatened to close down hotels that have been renamed Mumbai, Chennai, and celebrate New Year’s Eve, and shops selling Kolkata to rid them of colonial associations. valentine...

... continue to cooperate to protect ourselves civil society are meager phrases for captur­ against the former. ing the vitality of these new global coali­ This is the space we must return to in tions, which bring together people from the dialogue between Europe and the Unit­ Mumbai...

..., Boston, and Miami to Hong Kong, Singapore, Jeddah, Dubai, Mumbai, Karachi, Singapore, and the list goes on. We have built much of our world on the clearly flawed perception that our planet will remain largely immutable over centuries or millennia. So we build megacities on shorelines or waterways...