India News: Last November’s high court order made the pavement outside Oberoi Grand walkable again, but in a city starved of employment avenues hawkers are likely.
Post-secular narratives on Kolkata and the Hooghly Riverfront, entailing material politics of making sacred spaces at land-water interfaces, have been seldom discussed in urban planning scholarship. This paper explores ways of reconfiguring the urban ecological landscape by planning specific social infrastructures and public works at the ghats of Kolkata. Taking two case