Topic: India
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'I Pledge to Walk Alone': Activists Demand Safer Cities for Women in India
Pressing for a deeper change in gender attitudes.
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This Week in Bans
Soon, the Only Place to Smoke in San Francisco Will Be Alcatraz
Also recently banned: a throat-slitting kite string in India and an Aussie grandma who made $1 million worth of false emergency phone calls.
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Postcard
The World's Biggest Pop-Up City
As many as 100 million people could gather for Kumbh Mela in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.
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What We Can Learn From the Largest Gathering in Human History
This week, 30 million people will gather in Allahabad, India. Among them: Harvard scientists asking how on earth is an event of this size possible?
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Maps
Mapping India's Rape Problem
In the wake of the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi, a look at the country through rape statistics.
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Mumbai's Walkability Problem: Plenty of Pedestrians, Not Enough Sidewalks
Though the city sees 15 million walking trips a day, the infrastructure is abysmal. But some developers are trying to change that.
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India's Optimist
Urban India is not known for its orderliness. But Bish Sanyal says there's reason to be hopeful.
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Democracy in America
Salt Lake City Battles Metastasizing Parking Lots: This Week in Bans
Also, an Indian town tries to prevent adultery by taking away women's phones and Washington, D.C., stops being so uptight about booze.
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Why India's Big City Shopping Malls Are Dying Out
The recession, coupled with obscenely high rents, are forcing superstores out of business.
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Can India's 'City of Architects' Green the Building Industry?
The country's national construction is on pace to heighten emissions by nearly 400 percent in less than 40 years. But these designers are trying to change that.
