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Month: September 2016

Whitefield Rising

Whitefield citizens connect with greenery and healthy living

September 29, 2016 Whitefield Rising

Whitefield Rising hosted an enlightening session on Sunday, September 26, with eminent environmentalist A.N. Yellappa Reddy, who connected the dots among environmental consciousness, waste management, sewage treatment, lake purification, biodiversity promotion, and reconnection with nature. Held »

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Whitefield Rising

Whitefield learns to repair old stuff

September 29, 2016 Whitefield Rising

With consumerism at its peak and humans wasting more than utilising, it’s time to relook, to reflect, to repair. Repair Café is based on the very idea of sustainable living, to promote the judicious use »

Off Beat

RTI lessons: how to chase officials hiding the data

September 29, 2016 Akshatha M

The documents/ replies that I have received from various offices of BBMP in the last five months, to my RTI query on illegal hoardings, are piled up before me. Yet, they have no data that »

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Forward Bellandur

Damage of Public property & Injury to labourers on BBMP Duty at Kaikondrahalli lake

September 24, 2016 Shilpi Sahu

Sewage and plastic waste has been steadily pouring into Kaikondrahalli lake for the last few months from the eastern side of the lake. On the evening of 12th May 2016, a private landowner from that »

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Whitefield Rising

DCP lauds Whitefield citizens for neighbourhood watch programme

September 20, 2016 Pravir B

Encouraged by the success of Neighbourhood Watch (NW) initiative in Whitefield, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South East Division), Dr Boralingaiah M B has announced the extension of the programme to other areas of South East »

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Peacocks, Palaces and Pavements

Goodbye Bengaluru, thanks for reading!

September 20, 2016 Kate Clark

Ten weeks have flown by and my internship with Citizen Matters has come to a quick end. Tomorrow, I will board a flight, but I will not be leaving India just yet. I am looking »

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Deepa's Jottings

Photographers: Know what is due to you

September 15, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Don’t rush for credit, ask for cash too. Our birding group just got this pleading email: Hello,I am ___ , from ___ newspaper, I am looking for a photograph of Grey Hornbill, sighted in the »

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Deepa's Jottings

Kaveri and Kunti…

September 12, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Just like Kunti who had Karna on one side and five sons on the other, Mother Kaveri, in the wildlife sanctuary that I visit, flows with Tamil Nadu on one bank, and Karnataka on the »

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12th Sept 2016 in south Bangalore: my observations

September 12, 2016 Deepa Mohan

As I walked to and from my daughter’s home (J P Nagar 3rd Phase to and fromJayanagar 4th T Block) I noticed the following good citizens of the city and state: Several young men on »

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Deepa's Jottings

The love of reading…and passing on that love

September 12, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I was attending a book launch (“Junkland Journeys”, by Ajith Pillai) and from where I sat (apparently it had been the bar of the Mallu restaurant which used to be there earlier!) I looked down »

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