"The cultural politics of environment and development demand that we make the connections between poverty and unbridled consumerism of a privileged class, its sense that it can have it all, aspirations that can never be met without sacrificing someone or something."
Malcolm Adiseshiah Award Ceremony Speech
One woman's thoughts on urban planning and urban life in a south Indian metropolis.
08 March 2008
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