Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

The new Indian middle class and water use in Calcutta

Greater insight into consumer behaviour can help replace blanket notions of an ‘average consumer’ with closely observed knowledge of the diversity of water use practices in domestic spaces.

Posted on 27 Feb, 2016 01:54 PM

An ever expanding middle class has come to symbolise a new India which is changing individual and household consumption patterns by accessing resources and technologies beyond their availabilities.

Water use in urban cities (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Gender and water use: Looking beyond pure data

While generating gender disaggregated data, it is important to explore how to represent the gendered worlds and experiences of men and women at the smallest geographical unit--the household.

Posted on 05 Feb, 2016 12:36 PM

Growth and development indicators at the policy level many a times demand the need for factual data that is often standardised and expressed as numbers in order to make each local context comparable to other and allow data to be aggregated to higher geographical scales.

Gender and water use (Source: India Water Portal)

Book shelf : "Water First: Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities in South Asia" by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Robert J Wasson

This book brings together current knowledge and cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politics, ecologies and cultures of water in South Asia.

Robert J Wasson

Posted on 29 Sep, 2008 10:11 AM

This book brings together current knowledge and cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politi

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