In Telangana, the right to walk derailed by design

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The Supreme Court declared the ‘right to walk on demarcated footpaths’ a fundamental right. In Hyderabad, however, decades of vehicle-centric road planning have left pedestrians at a dead end. Swathi Vadlamudi takes a closer look at the state of the city’s footpaths and the challenges of making the