Issues in Urbanisation:A Tale of Many Cities

Urbanisation is an important-perhaps numero uno-emerging concern in India for very obvious reasons. After all, the urban concentration of the third world population in general and India in particular has been growing at a tremendous pace (too rapid for some). So that especial attention to the concern of urban problems is urgently called for. It is in this context that the work, in relation to which the current article is written, assumes importance. It is a collection of papers and articles written by a budding young scholar, Vibhooti Shukla, who tragically is no more. This inevitably means that even when one is being critical, one cannot help but feel a certain sense of poignant loss and sympathy that hence must pervade our treatment.