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QUOTES PIN POINT

COVID-19 has interrupted immunization services, health systems have been overwhelmed, and we are now seeing a resurgence of deadly diseases including measles. For many other diseases, the impact of these disruptions to immunization services will be felt for decades to come

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization

In nuclear law, the way people are introduced to the subject - whether they are introduced at all - will determine its future shape

Rafael Mariano Grossi

Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency

Heat, temperature, and moisture combined will be the killers in South Asia. If there is anything that will genuinely force people to respond to the climate crisis, it is frequent heat waves, because unlike other episodic extreme events, it is widespread and will impact everyone

Ajay Dixit

Executive Director, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Nepal

BUZZ

Narendra Modi Prime Minister @PMOIndia

Jamnagar’s contributions towards wellness will get a global identity with @WHO’s Global Centre for Traditional Medicine

Hardeep Singh Puri Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs @HardeepSPuri

Even as we expect 80 crore people to live in our urban areas by 2050, as PM Modi Ji says, this has to be viewed as an opportunity - not a problem. India has unleashed the world’s largest urban rejuvenation programme & the most comprehensive agenda for planned urbanisation ever

Brian Schatz United States Senator @brianschatz

The environmental movement of the last generation was partly organized around stopping things. But to save the planet we are going to have to build things at an unprecedented speed and scale. We need to make it easier, not harder, to build big, planet saving projects

Urban TRIVIA

Trams came to India in the late 19th century. Kolkata, then capital of India, got horse-drawn trams in February 1873. Later, tram trains were introduced in 8 more cities including Mumbai, Nashik, Chennai, Kanpur, Kochi, Delhi, Patna, and Bhavnagar. Trams in Kanpur and Nashik closed down their operations in 1933 while other trams services were closed between 1950 and 1964 except in Kolkata that is still in operation.

Cover Story

28 Culture is a glue that binds cities, citizens

33 Inside

Volume 8, Issue 1 May 2022

Infograph Leaderspeak

32 Cultural festivals and cities 34 Cities are brands too

38 Vada Pav: Bombay invents, Mumbai keeps relishing 42 The language Delhi speaks

40 Delhi: Reflection of India 44 Micro-plastics in the fish I eat

Regulars

6 Pin Point 8 Girl Power Project 11 Newscan 23 City Image 46 Urban Agenda

One on One

Shyam Sunder Aggarwal Mayor, EDMC 36 Waste management: Balance of both community and administration