Read post by PI Ayona Datta on how the current COVID19 crisis will affect India’s small cities.
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Research Assistant, Varun Patil continues his commentary with a part 2 on searching for the ‘Smart city’ in Jalandhar. In this post, he explores the ongoing work of the smart city interventions which aim to reduce congestion and improve traffic.
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In this blog post, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Srilata, shares about her archival adventures in Jalandhar. She talks about how we must embrace the rich lived experiences and politics of place as well as trace continuities between the past, present and future in order to justly write about the city with integrity rather than, in her words, “through a vacuous notion of ‘smartness’ “.
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In this piece, Research Assistant, Varun Patil, delves into the beauty of the 63-Acre Burlton Park and introduces the proposed plans for the erection of a Smart Sports Hub. This post celebrates the compendious array of the activities and time spent at Burlton Park by the locals of Jalandhar and touches on the sentiments of supporters and critics on building the said Sports Hub.
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