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The Dignity Dividend: Why Tamil Nadu’s Public Toilets Might Be India’s Most Important Governance Reform

Kirti Sharma - February 16, 2026

Chennai’s newest civic upgrade is easy to dismiss because it is so unglamorous. A public toilet does not carry the symbolic weight of a...

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Ferrgra—and the logic of Distributed Urban Infrastructure

Kirti Sharma - February 7, 2026

Cities don’t collapse because they lack infrastructure. They collapse because they build it like monuments—when it should behave like a network. Sanitation is the cleanest example...

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Toilets, Trust, and Transformation: How Chennai Is Rewriting India’s Urban Script

Kirti Sharma - September 23, 2025

Exclusive Story A City That Refuses to Look Away Chennai is doing what most Indian cities still hesitate to do: confront its most unglamorous civic reality—public...