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Enough for Need, Not for Greed:
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Whose Square Is It? Protest, Public
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Who Pays for India’s Cities? Municipal Finance and the Road Ahead
Last week, at the World Bank–IMF Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said "municipal bonds can enable
Liveability Rankings 2026: What They Miss About Indian Cities
When this month's "world's best cities for quality of life 2026" list began circulating in Indian media, the story wrote
Many People Strangers (Dreams of the Sea Buildings)
Cover image © Brian Michael Barbeito A dream of crowds and sea buildings that opens, without warning, onto a real
Summer Fields (Nature Journals)
Cover image © Brian Michael Barbeito Three fields — one lost, one in town, one above the ravine — and
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Perimeter Poems
Cover image © Brian Michael Barbeito North, east, south and west of a familiar patch of country — hawks, lakes, archways and ground that still feels feral. Prose and photographs by Brian Michael Barbeito By the scarecrow sometimes lives a hawk, and the hawk watches
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The Country of This Life (Five Prose Poems)
Cover image © Brian Michael Barbeito Five prose poems — a cemetery fisherman, a racoon by the highway, a man in need of boots, purple toy cars and real airplanes,
Meadow Mystic
Cover image © Brian Michael Barbeito A stand of trees in a meadow becomes, over four seasons, a faithful friend — and the place where a walking poet takes one
Bright Sunlight Autumn
Cover image © Brian Michael Barbeito Reeds, hawks and a vanishing praying mantis in late-season light — a wander through fields and memory, and the small zen moments that urban
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