US secretary of state John Kerry is unlikely to forget his visit to New Delhi in a hurry. Not once but twice his meticulously planned trip was derailed by routine monsoon showers, leading him to humorously quip to his IIT Delhi audience, “I don’t know if you came here in boats.” The same day, seven people died in rain related incidents in Hyderabad. India’s cities are collapsing. The ruralist bias of India’s political economy dictates that while urban India generates a massive proportion of India’s GDP, there is very little investment in them in return.
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Cut cities free: India’s urban nightmare can be ended with legislative changes and capacity building
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