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ONLINE LECTURE: Central Vista: Reworking of a Heritage Site 

Sumira Grover If you were to cross the iconic Rajpath road in New Delhi today, there is a high possibility that you may not recognize the area. The reconstruction of this area is being undertaken as part of the government’s Central Vista Redevelopment Project which aims to revamp and “beautify” the three km long Rajpath avenue that runs from the Rashtrpati Bhavan to the India Gate. … Continue reading ONLINE LECTURE: Central Vista: Reworking of a Heritage Site 

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ART AND CIVIC ACTIVISM IN BENGALURU

  • Sookthi Kav, 2B

‘Bangalore culture’ is the culture of an unplanned city growing faster than it can be controlled, the culture of a city rapidly engulfing surrounding villages, new migrants, and hordes of software ‘techies.’ You speak of Bengaluru, and you speak of great weather, Vidyarthi Bhavan masala-dose, Lal Bagh, Cubbon Park- and in the same breath you cannot help but mention traffic, potholes, foaming lakes, road accidents, terrible waste management, and its wholly apathetic municipal corporation, BBMP. The gross infrastructural mismanagement of the city is multifold and complex, with no easy solutions in sight. But the city is also known for its thriving citizen’s engagement in this context, with many activist groups using different ways to raise awareness, protest, and demand a better city to live in.  

Some of the most significant citizen movements in the city rely on art. This essay looks at two such ways of using visual art in the civic space and the questions they raise on the nature of civic activism. 

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India and the IOR : Contemporary Geopolitics

  • Anushka Saxena, III-B

The Indian Ocean Region constitutes an important dimension in India’s strategic imagination. To quote Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, “The sea has no frontiers like the land, which has. India, therefore, has to play an important role in the ocean surrounding her. I do not mean to say that we should presume to control these oceans. That is too big a task. But we should be strong enough to resist the control of any other power.”With the increasing fervour in India’s ‘Look-East’ and ‘Act-East’ policies, China’s One Belt-One Road, the BIMSTEC and the Indo-Pacific Strategy, the Indian Ocean Region is emerging as a colossal geopolitical, economic and socio-technical theatre. Not only does the region encompass two of the fastest rising global powers, India and China, but is also home to 83 % of the world’s maritime oil trade. However, with the increasing shift of spotlight towards the IOR, we must also carefully consider that the region is not just a one-sided, geo-strategic conceptualization, but is a continuum spread across the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia, and is central to trade across all nations, world-wide. 

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