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| Mural outside a Katkari House at Varosawadi (Katkariwadi) |
Vitasta Raina writes:
In the summer of 2022, I rode my bike on the old Mumbai-Pune highway from Pune to Chowk. It took me about half an hour to reach Chowk from the end of the Bhor Ghat, and would take me another two hours to reach Mumbai from Chowk. At approximately the geographical center of the highway between Pune and Mumbai, at the base of the Tooth Mountain and adjacent to Morbe Dam, lies the village of Chowk. Chowk was my case study village for my PhD studies on ‘Rural Housing Schemes in Peri-urban Villages’. It had the right conditions for my study, a village with active rural housing schemes, in close vicinity of real estate townships of the likes of Hiranandani and Godrej, and with a railway station that was getting expanded to join the Mumbai sub-urban rail network.
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