CityMakers : tribulations & triumphs : a saga of heroic struggle of the homeless residents of India / Indu Prakash Singh

By:

Singh, Indu Prakash, 1959- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Mukul Prakashan, 2017Description: xi, 608 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789383253128 (pbk.)

Other title:

City makers

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DDC classification:

23 362.5 SIN 021014

Summary: A Book that gives a deeper view of Indian Society from the point of view of the CityMakers (homeless residents). It will shock and stir all complacency that people have. Governance, Policing, census, justice, etc., appears all as a myth. Gives a scathing analyses of what ails urban development in India Over 16 years of committed work is described from a practitioners perspective in this book. Who happens to be a celebrated activist, a well - known sociologist and a philosopher. Being a die-hard optimist and votary of non-violence. This book has been applauded by Late Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (of the Supreme Court of India), Justice A. P. Shah (former Chief Justice of High Court of Delhi), the current Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri Arvind Kejriwal, Miloon Kothari (former Dr. Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar, MIT, USA and former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing), Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Parul Sharma, Anil Kumar and CityMaker, Nand Lal. The late illustrious Indian diplomat, Dr. Abid Hussain has words of praise for the author.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	362.5 SIN 021014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021014

A Book that gives a deeper view of Indian Society from the point of view of the CityMakers (homeless residents). It will shock and stir all complacency that people have. Governance, Policing, census, justice, etc., appears all as a myth. Gives a scathing analyses of what ails urban development in India Over 16 years of committed work is described from a practitioners perspective in this book. Who happens to be a celebrated activist, a well - known sociologist and a philosopher. Being a die-hard optimist and votary of non-violence. This book has been applauded by Late Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (of the Supreme Court of India), Justice A. P. Shah (former Chief Justice of High Court of Delhi), the current Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri Arvind Kejriwal, Miloon Kothari (former Dr. Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar, MIT, USA and former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing), Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Parul Sharma, Anil Kumar and CityMaker, Nand Lal. The late illustrious Indian diplomat, Dr. Abid Hussain has words of praise for the author.

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