April | 2011 | | Citizen Matters, Blogs

Old…and older….

April 29, 2011 Deepa Mohan

Though the bird count at the Bannerghatta Zoo area was on the low side today (this seemed to be more of an "audio" than a "visual" day, with many more birds being heard

In solidarity with their peers

April 27, 2011 Pushpa Achanta

Last Saturday evening (23rd April 2011), around thirty IT/ITeS Employees gathered under the banner of IT and ITeS Employee Centre (ITEC) in front of Bangalore’s Town Hall amidst heavy and incessant rain to

Nandi Hills…the people and the scenery

April 25, 2011 Deepa Mohan

Having had to postpone our trip to Nandi Hills due to torrential rains on Saturday, we decided to make the trip on Sunday morning, and Anand, Kannan, Priyanka, Sushil, Vaibhav, and I left at

Nature corner

Flying tigers in Bengaluru

April 24, 2011 Vikram Nanjappa

The colourfully Striped Tiger Butterfly is easy to spot. They make fanciful study subjects for those into butterfly study.

Wildlife Workshop

April 24, 2011 Deepa Mohan

WRRC presents "Whispering Wilderness" – a unique education workshop to introduce the concept of bio-diversity and its conservation. The nine-weekend program starts on April 30th in Bangalore and features expert talks, team building

Pleasures of Summer…Mango Pickles!

April 18, 2011 Deepa Mohan

One of the pleasures of the summer is certainly….mangoes! From the most unripe to the most ripe, we can enjoy mangoes in a variety of ways…and with unripe mangoes, we can make a

Happy New Year!

April 13, 2011 Deepa Mohan

புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்! transliterates to "putthANdu vAztthukkaL" and it means, New Year Greetings! It’s the many others celebrate it today too… So…. Happy New Year to everyone! tiny_mce_marker ⊕

Thoughts on World heritage day

April 12, 2011 Meera Iyer

The idea of a day set aside to commemorate the world’s heritage – a day on which to highlight the efforts required to protect and conserve heritage and to underscore its vulnerability – was first

High as a kite..

April 11, 2011 Deepa Mohan

…That subject title is literally true, since a Black Kite floated past on the thermals, at eye level, as I took these pics! Some of them are through very dirty glass, so I apologize for

Big Deal

Hot Chips, Bellandur Gate

April 8, 2011 Sameer Shisodia

The weather, friendly people and great coffee at any random darshini – these are the reasons I proffer to folks when they ask for the secret that Bangalore became, and continues to stay, home for

Volunteer Diary

Do we remember our small farmers?

April 7, 2011 Pushpa Achanta

In Mandya, Vasanthamma, 28, wife of a silk farmer realised that she would be unable to repay Rs 1,20,000 borrowed from a local self-help group. She hung herself and so did Gowda, fearing creditors. They left behind 3 little children Chandrika (5 years), Kirtana (3 1/2) and Sharath (2).

In Support of Chikka Bapu (Anna Hazare) for Jan Lokpal bill at Freedom Park, Bangalore

April 7, 2011 Satheesh A

In Support of Chikka Bapu (Anna Hazare) for Jan Lokpal bill thousands turned up at Freedom Park, Bangalore on 8-Apr evening. All TV channels lined up to cover the hunger strike that is going on

Captured

Month: April 2011