Fifty Years Of Urban India: Niua’s Golden Jubilee and the City We Still Haven’t Built
A CITY IS NEVER FINISHED There is a particular kind of civic grief that belongs to Indian cities. It is the grief of being perpetually almost-there. Almost-planned. Almost-drained. Almost-resilient. On June 13, 2026, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) turned 50. It looked forward, with the urgency of a…