Find new murals and iconic favourites at Lodhi Art District Source: How to walk through Delhi’s open air art district | Condé Nast Traveller India

Mumbai’s old cinemas, sea-facing homes and soft pastel façades still hold the quiet rhythm of the 1930s. As the Art Deco Alive! festival wraps up, these 10 buildings offer a gentle reminder to pause, look up and let the city’s design stories guide your next walk. Source: 10 Art Deco Buildings to See in Mumbai:

Here’s a review of the Nike Court Vision x Red Cartoon, a custom sneaker by a homegrown brand called Knickgasm, and how this company is shaping India’s custom sneaker market. Source: Walking on art: How a pair of custom sneakers explains India’s newest cultural obsession – BusinessToday

The initiative was led by Vikas Ruparelia, 53, Director of a private company and a GPS art enthusiast who has earlier created digital artworks in London, Barcelona, Vienna, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad. Calling it one of his most fulfilling projects, he said: “It took me nearly 30 days to plan the route. Executing it on Independence

The immersive multimedia installation ‘Walking Through a Songline’ in New Delhi, organized by the Australian High Commission and KNMA, showcases Source: Walking Through a Songline Highlights Australia’s Indigenous Heritage – The Sunday Guardian Live

From Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity rooms to guided Art Deco tours, AD India has curated a list of diverse, unique experiences for you to indulge in. Source: Infinity rooms, walking tours, and glass-blowing : A guide to Mumbai’s most unique experiences | Architectural Digest India

The queen who dressed as a man and the eunuch who built a mosque are just two highlights of a journey through 800 years of India’s rich LGBTQ+ heritage Source: Rediscovering India’s lost queer icons: a tour of Old Delhi’s secret history | Global development | The Guardian

Discover the city of New Delhi on foot as you bookmark these heritage walks to the gems in the national capital. Source: 5 best heritage walks in Delhi – Luxebook

Far from disappearing, pedlars have a pervasive presence in cities—around busy intersections such as traffic signals, metro stations, tourist spots, bus terminals, railway stations, religious places, public parks and monuments; within residential localities, neighbourhood markets and industrial areas; outside office complexes, educational institutions, hospitals, shopping centres and even malls and supermarkets. They ply an entire gamut of trades from knife-sharpening, shoe polishing, miracle cures and ear-cleaning to providing chai and snacks, as also a wide range of commodities. This essay is a response to the images captured by Gopal in his city Mumbai, from the location of my interest as an anthropologist in forms of walking in the city as well as the associational life of streets around the locus of economic activities.… Continue reading Walk economy →

One cannot deny that footwear is also intimately tied to tradition in India, which is a unique combination of many culures and customs. Source: A Walk Through the Traditional Footwear of India

‘Women Walk at Midnight’ is a group that organises walks for women across the city of Delhi to give them a chance to feel safe in public spaces at night. Leaving stickers at places along the way ….. Source: A walk to reclaim the night — women go on Delhi trail of roads named after other

Within the Vijaya Vittala Temple in Hampi, South India are 56 pillars, each 3.6 metres high, which when gently tapped produce delicate musical notes. Tourists have been travelling to the UNESCO World Heritage Site for years to hear the over 500-year-old temple’s mesmerising music. Source: India’s ancient temples that ‘sing’ thanks to intricate musical architecture

A 25-year-old man from coastal Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra has embarked on an over 1,800-km journey on foot across a few states in India to interact with people over issues like farmers’ suicide, water scarcity and increasing use of plastic, and to raise public awareness on these topics Source: Man from Ratnagiri starts 1800 km

The journey, spanning 1,700km and six states, saw Gita Balakrishnan tread swathes of mainland India in searing summer heat Source: Art – Kolkata woman takes lessons from 70-day walk for design – Telegraph India

Different parts of the city hold different meanings for those who come to live in it. The footpath to a bus stop in East Delhi, the view of Purana Qila from a mudrika, the first ice cream at India Gate, a market, a park, a housing colony, a route or a stop accumulate to make the city for us, and in strange and invisible ways also make us. Yet, we continue to exist in ourselves and in cities in this constant play of the visible and ever-changing present, jousting constantly with our memories and our present navigating through a place. … Continue reading The future in Delhi’s present →

A saunter through this area uncovers the multi-layered history of Kolkata Source: Neighbourhood A walking tour through Esplanade’s Dharmatala Street is a deep dive into history – Telegraph India

By: Dr Adil Rasool Malik “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its fir Source: WHAT A KASHMIRI DESIRES WALKING INTO A NEW YEAR | Kashmir Images Newspaper

Indian cities are not known for the walls of buildings transformed into art galleries as in the West. There is no Bansky yet in India where city walls are mostly usurped by politicians for flaunting their election posters. But one Kolkata neighbourhood recently showed the way, turning it into a graffiti hotspot. Photo journalist Avishek

This piece is the first in a series of reflections on and conversations with interpreters who have embedded themselves in the city they translate to others. Their imageries and imaginations provide ways of seeing the past and present of the city as also forms of caring about the city to future generations of interpreters.… Continue reading My Teacher, Sunil Kumar →

Vasu was off to a great start today. She was ready for office, well in advance to relish a steaming cup of chai and eat two parathas at an appreciate-each-morsel pace. On most days, breakfast was a paratha–jam roll, gobbled on the march to the bus stop. Today she had fifteen opulent minutes to reach the bus stop instead of the usual eight minutes that commanded dusty shortcuts, hasty footsteps and frantic waving to stop the bus. If only any of that had made a difference.… Continue reading An untitled journey →