12/07/2025
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Session 4: Communal Loss: The Erosion of Third Spaces in Modern South Asia
Date & Time: Monday, 14 July 2025 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm (PKT)
Communal spaces—once the thallas, chaurahas, and baithaks where neighbours gathered to share ideas, poetry and music—are vanishing under rapid urbanization and commercialization. Today, malls and food streets have become our only “third spaces,” yet they’re often inaccessible or appropriated by men, further marginalizing women and widening class divides
Join our expert panel as we:
- Reassess the cultural and wellbeing value of informal communal spaces
- Debate how to make public areas genuinely inclusive, without resorting to privatization
- Explore the role of policies, norms, and encroachments in the loss of shared urban life
Be part of this critical conversation on reclaiming third spaces for all.
Photo Credit- Shaheen Nauman
Session 4: Communal Loss: The Erosion of Third Spaces in Modern South Asia
Date & Time: Monday, 14 July 2025 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm (PKT)
Communal spaces—once the thallas, chaurahas and baithaks where neighbours gathered to share ideas, poetry and music—are vanishing under rapid urbanization and commercialization. Today, malls and food streets have become our only “third spaces,” yet they’re often inaccessible or appropriated by men, further marginalizing women and widening class divides
Join our expert panel as we:
- Reassess the cultural and wellbeing value of informal communal spaces
- Debate how to make public areas genuinely inclusive, without resorting to privatization
- Explore the role of policies, norms and encroachments in the loss of shared urban life
Be part of this critical conversation on reclaiming third spaces for all.
Picture Credit - Shaheen Nauman
