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Fahad Zuberi
Fahad Zuberi is an independent scholar and researcher of Architecture and City Studies
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Partition, my family and 50 years of ‘Garm Hava’: Why our graves root us to this landSubscriber Only
December 10,2024 13:52:35 PM
In Garm Hava, Salim Mirza’s mother confronts the proposal to move to Pakistan with: “The bones of my ancestors are buried in this soil,” she exclaims. After the massacre of Garhmukteshwar, my Nana also denied the offer to move to Pakistan, arguing that his ancestors were buried in India
Tue, Dec 10, 2024
In Mumbai’s hoarding collapse deaths, the precarity of life in India’s cities is visibleSubscriber Only
May 22,2024 07:07:54 AM
The incident is a typical case of criminal neglect and the state’s refusal of accountability. In Ghatkopar, the state failed the citizens and broke the trust that city dwellers put in the material elements of public life
Wed, May 22, 2024
The bulldozer and elections: It’s not demolition, it’s domicideSubscriber Only
May 01,2024 17:14:20 PM
Demolition can be both constructive and destructive. Domicide, on the other hand, is the killing of home, which carries the promise of safety, a necessity for dignity and is a matter of pride
Wed, May 01, 2024
Why I should be allowed to not celebrate the Ram temple consecration in AyodhyaSubscriber Only
February 01,2024 06:59:52 AM
Those who celebrate the temple and those who distance themselves — the rights of both need equal protection
Fri, Feb 02, 2024
Renaming of cities is not about rewriting history —it’s about killing memorySubscriber Only
December 25,2023 07:30:56 AM
Those who resist it do so as an act of staking equal claim to public spaces, asserting themselves as citizens who cannot be erased from public life
Mon, Dec 25, 2023
Ahmedabad should take its own U20 recommendationsSubscriber Only
August 17,2023 07:00:01 AM
This would require repealing laws such as the Disturbed Areas Act and abandoning the politics of urban exclusion
Thu, Aug 17, 2023
Fahad Zuberi writes on Bharat Mandapam: Decoding the buildingSubscriber Only
August 01,2023 06:45:00 AM
Hall of nations stood for inclusive nation building, Bharat Mandapam needs an official press release for meaning
Tue, Aug 01, 2023
Missing in Karnataka election: The citySubscriber Only
May 08,2023 19:56:18 PM
Quality of our cities is the quality of our lives. What should also be an important issue in this poll is that Bengaluru is a basket case of disastrous urban planning and consequent insufficient infrastructure, environmental damage, unaffordable real estate
Mon, May 22, 2023
Lessons from Turkey: How to make India earthquake preparedSubscriber Only
March 02,2023 07:05:05 AM
Turkey earthquake, tremors in Joshimath, carry a warning for Indian cities. Earthquake preparedness is not just about buildings — cities as a whole need to be reimagined
Thu, Mar 02, 2023
The message of the New Mosque in Ayodhya: Farther a Muslim is from his visible religiosity, the more acceptable he isSubscriber Only
December 06,2022 07:05:14 AM
The New Mosque, despite its efforts to do otherwise, will tell the story of a community that — in the face of social conditions that threatened its survival — tried to shun its own rightful religiosity, trauma, past, and identity in the hope for harmonious existence; and failed at it.
Tue, Dec 06, 2022
The architect and the construction workerSubscriber Only
October 27,2022 04:11:56 AM
Fahad Zuberi writes: Architects must do more to ensure safety, welfare of construction workers. They cannot pass the buck in the name of contract or scope of work
Thu, Oct 27, 2022
Supertech demolition and the Noida problemSubscriber Only
September 01,2022 17:56:17 PM
Fahad Zuberi writes: Urban plans can be made implementable only when they are flexible enough to let a city grow around emerging markets. The solution is not more government control, but less
Fri, Sep 02, 2022
On Gyanvapi Mosque, we are debating the wrong questionSubscriber Only
May 17,2022 13:14:02 PM
Fahad Zuberi writes: Courts cannot be acting on claims of mythology or those of medieval capture. They must leave buildings for what they are – complex sediments of history that we decided to resolve by proclaiming a break from the past and giving ourselves modern values.
Wed, May 18, 2022
Memorialising PastSubscriber Only
September 05,2021 16:43:23 PM
Instead of nationalising an event of trauma and freezing it in the frame of time as a day, a memorial or a series of memorials rooted in the context of their time and space are what we need to not forget the trauma of Partition and remember it humanely
Sun, Sep 05, 2021
Delhi Master Plan: Planning a city by excluding the peopleSubscriber Only
July 15,2021 04:00:26 AM
Fahad Zuberi writes: The Delhi Master Plan, 2041 – traditionally illiberal enough – has been made more authoritarian, superciliously detached, and imposed on the people of Delhi by the GNCTD Act
Thu, Jul 15, 2021
How Hindutva works to create an urbanity of hateSubscriber Only
June 11,2021 22:55:37 PM
Socio-political rhetoric creates polarised cities through legislation and polarised segregated cities further contribute towards divisive politics
Fri, Jun 11, 2021
To pit people’s protest against infrastructure is to diminish urban life and democracySubscriber Only
December 14,2020 00:00:16 AM
Between the lawns of Rajpath and the barricaded borders of Delhi today, we see the city becoming increasingly hostile to dissent. The state wants to keep the protestors out and the general public accepts the rhetoric of disruption with ease.
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
Why the obsession to restore historic sites to their ‘original’ status is futileSubscriber Only
August 03,2020 18:48:14 PM
A toxic and vulgar obsession towards history drives these futile attempts at reaching the “original” — as if, the history that these structures imbibe in themselves can be rewritten and erased by offering namaz or by laying the foundation stone of a temple
Tue, Aug 04, 2020Journalism of Courage
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