Tag: Urban India

Urban self-organised movements: what does the AAP case portray?

May 22, 2014

The Aam Admi Party is a text book case-study in self-organized urban movements that have utilized the power of web 2.0 to the hilt. Aam Aadmi Party metamorphosed from a civil society movement against corruption lead by the political sage Anna Hazare to a political phenomena that stormed Delhi State Politics in the December 2013 … More Urban self-organised movements: what does the AAP case portray?

From Cutting Chai to Chai Latte: Cafes as metaphor for globalization in urban India

March 10, 2013

Globalization as the term Sustainability has been liberally sprinkled in our so called ‘global’ conversation in enunciating (more in terms of drawing a generalization) the social phenomena entailing the web of paradoxes embedding our urban landscapes.  With Social Media & MTV Culture becoming main stream, cafes too are flooding in to have a sip of … More From Cutting Chai to Chai Latte: Cafes as metaphor for globalization in urban India