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  • Auto-Countability

    The data in professor Sanjay Kumar Singh’s article, “Future Mobility in India,” predicts India’s CO2 emissions to increase to 93.25 million metric tons in 2020. That will be 73.45 more metric tons than the 2001 CO2 levels. In the era of climate-change speak, auto image-based cities like Los Angeles and Detroit are trying to reduce…

  • Nungambakkam, Paris

    Crossing over the Cooum from Egmore brings you south, to the Nungambakkam district of Chennai, which at 4:00pm yesterday, struck me as delightfully Parisian. Many governmental institutions are located along the Cooum, on College Road.  Across the river, high rise apartments are a mirage of Aubervillier. Nungambakkan is one of the wealthier districts of Chennai,…

  • The (Vulgar) Global Subject

    “Imperialist expansion is not just differentiated but differentiating; the calculation of “difference” is part and parcel of the strategies of imperial expansion.” In his chapter on “Toward a Vulgar Theory of Imperialism,” architectural historian Arindam Dutta examines the various spokes that comprised Britain’s wheel of imperialism. His argument: nothing is inconsequential. Even the simple act…

  • River Beautification

    CMDA (Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority) recently released the 2026 Chennai Master Plan. The central theme of the Plan is Chennai’s transformation into a global city. In preparation for this identity, the Cooum River—one of three water bodies that runs through Chennai—is slated for two major development projects: the creation of an elevated express way and…

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