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Engage with India’s small cities. Explore knowledge. Share experiences.

Reimagine your city. Connect with others shaping change.
Deep Dive Research

Researchers | Youth | Active Citizens

Research that goes deep on the issues shaping India's small cities - making visible what policy, practice, and media often overlook.

Nagarpedia

Youth | Active Citizens

A community-built encyclopedia giving India's small cities the documented existence, searchable history, and public knowledge they deserve

Writing Contest

Youth | Entries Closed

Every year, young writers from India's small cities find the words their hometowns never had and rewrite how the rest of the country sees them.

Nagrika Fellowship

Youth | Applications Open in Sep 26

Turning hometowns into homecomings - fellows document, research, and champion their cities, building new imaginations for a future their fellow citizens want.

Nagrika Connect

Civil Society Organisations

A living network where citizen-led initiatives across India's small cities share what works, learn from each other, and grow stronger together

Find Your People
Small City Trends

Researchers | Youth | Active Citizens

Quick, sharp reads on what's actually shifting in India's small cities — tracking the changes before they become tomorrow's big headlines.

Names for Nature

Active Citizens | Youth | Researchers

A living glossary of local words for nature — crowdsourced from India's small places before the words, and the worlds they name, disappear.

Small City Declaration

Researchers | Active Citizens | Youth

A living commitment- to build knowledge from the ground up, centre small city voices, and refuse to let India's smaller places stay on the margins.

Resource Hub

Researchers | Active Citizens | Youth

A shared space where citizens, researchers, and practitioners working on small cities bring their knowledge together and keep it moving.

Podcast

Active Citizens

Conversations with the people quietly shaping India's small cities - their ideas, their struggles, and the futures they're trying to build.

How can you engage
Researcher

Learn more about what is happening in small cities through

Active Citizens

Contribute to the knowledge from small cities 

Civil Society Organisations

Learn from experiences of other smaller cities 

  • Nagrika Connect

  • Invite us to see your small city initiative

  • Attend a Nāgrika Event

Elected Authorities

Learn more about what is happening in small cities through

Patron

Enable voices for and from cities through our programs

  • Champion our work 

  • Be thought partners

  • Contribute

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