March | 2010 | Citizen Matters, Blogs

A turning point for Bengaluru

March 26, 2010 Subramaniam Vincent

For over ten days now, Citizen Matters has followed the hectic election campaigns of candidates around the city. A mixed reality has already come out from our talking to candidates, their campaigners and voters. Some,

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Three Fourth of a Sunset

March 22, 2010 City Shutterbug

The summer sun sets over Varthur Lake. Pic By Ravi Kaushik.

HU mobility manifesto

March 21, 2010 Deepa Mohan

To see the Hasiru Usiru Mobility Manifesto, click here A document produced with many inputs and a lot of thought and hard work! ⊕

Independent thinking…but similar conclusion

March 21, 2010 Deepa Mohan

Another blogger whose blog I’ve followed since he was on LiveJournal, comes to the same conclusion that many of us have, about the widening of our roads… The other day, walking down Dr. Rajkumar Road

Make them take sides

March 21, 2010 Ashwin Mahesh

I spent sometime during the past week reading about a number of candidates in various election wards of BBMP. I have got email from some of them, and sms-es from some others. I’ve watched them

Women and Media – the journey, challenges and emerging spaces

March 20, 2010 Pushpa Achanta

Celebrating the International Women’s Day centenary, the Network of Women in Media, Bangalore (NWMB), Network of Women in Media, India‘s (NWMI) local chapter and the Bangalore Press Club, co-hosted a lively and thoughtful exchange on

A discussion and film screening on “Water”

March 20, 2010 Deepa Mohan

March 22nd World Water Day…here are some headlines: New bill to penalize those wasting drinking water-Deccan Herald, Bangalore March9 Privatisation no solution to tackle water shortage in city- Deccan Herald March 9 Water Crisis to

Vacation Training Program for Students by ATREE

March 17, 2010 Deepa Mohan

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore is organizing a free ‘Vacation Training Program on Bio-Resources’ for students from April 19th to 8th May 2010. Funded by Department of Bio-Technology, Government of

A historic city election on the cards

March 14, 2010 Subramaniam Vincent

Citizen Matters is organising two election debates/meet-the-candidates interactions in your area – one for BTM Ward (176) and one for JP Nagar ward (177). Both events will happen on the weekend of March 20-21. March

Dashing through the streets

Loud thinking

March 11, 2010 Poornima Dasharathi

After mindlessly surfing the networking world, I finally thought I’ll write something. What then shall I write about? The current hot topics are Women’s Reservation Bill & IPL. Forget IPL, everyone wants to write

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The Pursuit Of Happiness

March 9, 2010 City Shutterbug

Seen at City Market, Bangalore. Pic by Kshitij Garg