May, 2009 Citizen Matters, Blogs

To B.E or not to B.E

May 28, 2009 Siri Srinivas

As if my mother’s smiling approval each morning of the various little children who bagged single digit CET ranks this year, and reading aloud of their newspaper interviews (in which each of them invariably extol

Something that I would like to have attended…

May 25, 2009 Deepa Mohan

Comprehensive Trauma Consortium, is a voluntary non-profit organization established in March 2000, specializes in providing round-the-clock Free Ambulance Rescue service (Pre-hospital care) to accident victims in and around Bangalore City . We have conducted 70,000

How problems never get solved

May 24, 2009 Editors

Very often, complicated social problems are left to activists and NGOs to battle governments for resolution. But our politics being where it is, these issues never get settled with the clarity and force that they

Unity in Diversity?

May 23, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

Different language, faith(religion), caste. Similar socio-economic background, residential neighbourhood, age and school. Do they divide or unite? Fortunately the latter in most cases I have encountered over several years of teaching and counselling children from

Negotiating Insights: From IIMB’s MPWE Programme

May 23, 2009 Anjana Vivek

Background: Negotiations are a part of life, whether it is in business or in the political arena, whether it is in selling a company or buying a stake in a business or raising venture capital

Our writers are book authors!

May 14, 2009 Editors

Manjushree Abhinav, one of our writers has written a book, A Grasshopper’s Pilgrimage. The book is being released in Bangalore by well known actor Tom Alter at the Crosswords bookstore tomorrow on 16th of May,

Government Schools for Daughters, Private Schools for Sons

May 13, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

Ever come across a worker from the unorganized sector striving hard to ensure that her/his daughter(s) and son(s) study? Probe a little and most probably the girl(s) will be in a government school and the

Who let the dogs out?

May 9, 2009 Supriya Khandekar

Are you a victim of wrong footing on dog poop, while walking on a footpath? Well, you are not alone; this is the nightmare of every Bangalorean, who like me prefers to walk on the

Different citizens, different energies

May 8, 2009 Editors

As stewards of this local publication, we are often at the intersection of a variety of public voices, energies and attitudes. This fortnight, we’ll present to you three different sides to one larger emerging story.

A Protest Meeting on Saturday

May 6, 2009 Deepa Mohan

Here’s a message written by my fellow-volunteer at Hasiru Usiru, Kanishka Lahiri: The protests opposing the current plans of the Bangalore Metro in the southern reach have been well publicized in the mainstream media. As

Environment

Welcome to the walking track around Ulsoor Lake

May 2, 2009 Sharath Bhat

It was the first time I was actually testing out the walking track here and believe me, this was refreshing. The walking surface is a wee bit rough but who cares, with the kind of

In English Please…

May 2, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

All children I have voluntarily tutored (often, first generation literates from low income families) over the last several years yearn to become fluent in English irrespective of the languages they speak or study in. And