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The Mumbai neighbourhood nobody visits

Tucked away in the by-lanes of Kurla’s commercial mainstay is a neighbourhood soaked in history and diversity

6 min read6 Jan 2017
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New Thippasandra: Eastern promise

How an east Bengaluru neighbourhood filled the home-shaped voids of London and Malleswaram

5 min read23 Jan 2016
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Solitude at Nandidurg Road

Being cloistered in a Bengaluru neighbourhood ideal for pedestrians, street photographers and a broken heart

4 min read4 Jul 2015
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The local geography of a Bengaluru neighbourhood

A series on intimate looks at city neighbourhoods goes to Rajajinagar 2nd stage

4 min read14 Feb 2015
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Local Geography | The taming of Tiljala

Once shunned as a Muslim ghetto, this ethnically diverse pocket gets a 'flat life'

1 min read16 Nov 2013
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Local Geography | The fake hills of Noida Sector 34

Life in a changing neighbourhood of high-rises with hilly titles, villages and a weekly market

3 min read27 Jul 2013
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Thengappura | The long, sad story of the coconut shed

A bougainvillea-lined Thiruvananthapuram neighbourhood has become a world of empty rooms and a dilapidated electric transformer

2 min read29 Jun 2013
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Local Geography | Cooke’s corner

A Bangalore neighbourhood of pluralities and divideswhere pork chops and ringtone fatwas happily coexist

2 min read13 Apr 2013

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