Gautam Bhan is an LGBTQ+rights activist in India as well as a researcher, writer and faculty member at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. As the faculty member of IIHS, he works and teaches politics of poverty, inequality and development in Indian cities with a focus on housing, social security, governance and urban and planning theory. He is also the spokesman for LGBTQ+ rights and one of the petitioners in the legal battle to decriminalizehomosexuality in India. He is the coordinator of Program for Working Professionals in Urban Development and co-anchors three major research projects on evictions, urban inclusion, slum up-gradation, and the relationships between poverty, inequality and urban violence.
Gautam Bhan is a senior consultant at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, an educational institution that intends to amalgamate research, teaching and practice urban housing, along with generating insight from the south. He was a research fellow on a study with the Society of Applied Studies for two years. Bhan is also the co-founder of New Text, a "print and electronic publishing house committed to expanding equitable, open and affordable access to knowledge and books". He appeared on TED Talks India in December 2017, where he spoke about his "bold plan to house 100 million people". He works as a leading columnist with The Indian Express, and has published a number of articles including those on LGBTQ+ pride and poverty.
Bhan, G., Srinivas, S., and Watson, V. Routledge companion to planning in the global south. London: Routledge.
Deb, A., & Bhan, G.. Indispensable yet inaccessible: the paradoxes of adequate housing in urban India. In India social development report 2016. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Bhan, G.. In the public’s interest: evictions, citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
Revi, A., Jana, A., Malladi, T., Anand, G., Anand, S., Bazaz, A.,... Shah, S.. Urban India 2015: Evidence. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Bhan, G., Goswami, A., & Revi, A.. The intent to reside: spatial illegality, inclusive planning and urban social security. In O. Mathur, Inclusive urban planning: state of the urban poor report 2013. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Bhan, G.. The impoverishment of poverty: reflections on urban citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi. Environment and Urbanization, 26, 547–560.
