Suhit K Sen: 1 book
Beyond Kolkata
Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This bookexamines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision...
