High-rise living is increasingly common in urban areas, especially in fast-growing economies like India. Even as residential living grows vertically, reaching skyward, Ishita Patil discusses how these gated spaces reproduce socio-cultural practices and prejudices even as they promise exclusive, modern communities of living.
In ‘India’s New Middle Class’, Leela Fernandes studies the rising middle class in India, their internal differences and political practices. This group, which emerges through India’s efforts at economic liberalisation, marks its distinction via…
