Networks & Neighborhood: Phase II

Maps And “Emotions a continued Workshop
An Afternoon With Maps And “Emotions” On a sunny Saturday afternoon on the terrace of Khoj, a cartography workshop was organised under the headship of Riju (sumandra chattopadhya) as part of the series of workshops […] November 21, 2015, Sreejata Roy

MULAKATON KI GALIYAAN
A NOTE ON ‘MULAKATON KI GALIYAAN’ AND ITS ARCHITECTS Mulakaton Ki Galiyaan – The Lanes of Encounter, our first issue from the network and neighbourhood project which finally grounded on the eve of 25th […] November 15, 2015, Sreejata Roy

OpenStreetMap as the template, a Workshop
We organised a workshop with Riju (Sumondro Chattopadhya, Project Director, Centre for Information Studies, Bangalore) on 28 November at Khoj, through which young local residents narrated their gendered experience of neighbourhood public space, visibility, mobility […] November 15, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Experiencing Gaze via Art in Public Space
As art historian James Elkins observes, the gaze is “a treacherous concept” for theorists in different fields – it is “conceptually ambiguous, self-contradictory, occasionally too rigid, too abstract, too general or […] October 12, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Women on Streets: Encounters in Everyday Life
Nian Paul Research scholar Jawaharlal Nehru University The invisibility of women and the restricted mobility as highlighted in the previous blog will remain incomplete without further enquiring/delving into the negotiations that the women residing in […] September 30, 2015, Web Master

The ‘Dual’ Identity and the ‘Camouflaged’ Freedom
Chetana Naskar Research scholar Jawaharlal Nehru University Women have thrived in the society not without putting up struggle and when the question of imprinting self-identity comes into the scenario the scuffle becomes more austere. The […] September 30, 2015, Web Master

EXPERIENCING THE ‘OTHERNESS’ – THE STREETS AND NARROW LANES OF KHIRKEE-HAUZRANI
Chetana Naskar Research scholar Jawaharlal Nehru University It was on Friday, 13th August, when I along with my co-intern Nian and our two little, but exuberant and extremely flamboyant guide Binu and Veena (name […] August 27, 2015, Sreejata Roy

First Day at Khirkee
11th August 2015 Nian Paul Researcher, Social Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru University Narrow lanes with buildings towering high on the onlooker, innumerable shops occupying the ground level establishments of the buildings, congested lanes which has skipped […] August 20, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Observations, Khoj Lane
6 pm 17 June 2015, Satender Tiwari At 6 pm in the evening there is around more than 100 workers standing in the Khoj lane. Groups of these men are in front of each shop, […] July 2, 2015, Sreejata Roy

‘Sri Ji Solutions’ Computer Shop, Khoj Lane
16 June 2015, Satender Tiwari When I was roaming around the Khoj Street I found the shop where a women sitting in front of her computer alone in the shop and I saw the […] July 2, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Jha Ji’s Tea Shop, Khoj Lane
15 June 2015, Satender Tiwari Today I talked with Jha ji at his teashop, close to Khoj. The shop is partly in a basement, only half-visible, three steps below the lane. Jha ji is a […] July 2, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Networks & Neighborhood: Phase II
Field Log 26 May 2015 Arifa Khan Since the majority of migrants in Hauz Rani are Afghans, I thought there surely must be an Afghan beauty parlour where I could find women to talk to […] May 26, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Networks & Neighborhood: Phase II
Field Log 26 May 2015 Satender Tiwari I visited Mrs Saira Siddiqi, President of Khirkee Extension Welfare Association, at her house in J-Block. We had a long conversation about my project. I asked her what […] May 26, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Networks & Neighborhood: Phase II
Field Log 25 May 2015 Satender Tiwari The newer part of Khirkee Village behind the wall with Buddha graffiti has multistory buildings and one or two of them are very old and maintained very well. […] May 25, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Networks & Neighborhood: Phase II
Field Log 25 May 2015 Arifa Khan Afghans and Africans are two prominent migrant communities in Khirkee. We heard rumours that the Africans are beginning to leave the area because of intolerance and non-acceptance by […] May 25, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Networks & Neighborhood: Phase II
Field Log 21 May 2015 Satender Tiwari On my second day of fieldwork I talked with residents of J-Block. I met with Mr. Lal Chandra Gupta, a senior citizen who owned a dry-cleaning shop. When […] May 21, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Networks & Neighborhood: Phase II
Field Log 15 May 2015 Arifa Khan This was our first day of fieldwork observing gender presence within the public spaces of Khirkee and Hauz Rani. Both localities were new to us. We left Khoj […] May 15, 2015, Sreejata Roy

Networks and Neighborhood Posting 01
I first explored Khirkee in 2008-09 for my Khoj-supported project City [In]visible through which I documented the relationship of these practices, as evident in Khirkee, to changes in the locality arising from socio-economic changes in […] August 5, 2014, Web Admin

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