Gaurav Mittal on Political Geographies and the Urban Transportation Crisis
Ideas of India
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What Is Happening in Chilong?
Shilong is one of the oldest cities with public busservice. But when megala state came in existence, it became capital of this small state called megalia. Megala has a huge tribal population, and they wanted the state because they used to think that their areas are controlled by a semi gant bangoli population. So you can see how the whole system of public transport was in some way dismantled by the cultural politics of the city. In 19 ninete the taxige come in, and people start driving taxes. And there ar ten on fish routs. The same story repeats. I have never heard of any other city which would have that much dencity of public
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