September, 2015 Citizen Matters, Blogs

BBMP certifying the quality of its own work leads to bad roads

September 28, 2015 Ashwin Mahesh

If an accident is caused by the poor condition of a road, should the BBMP be held responsible? And should the corporation be forced to pay compensation to such victims? There’s been a lot of

State of the language

September 28, 2015 Deepa Mohan

On the one hand, we have organisations like the Department of Kannada and culture, promoting the use of Kannada, and trying to avoid its being interspersed with words from other languages. On the other, we

Prakrti Mitra Award

September 27, 2015 Arathi Manay Yajaman

PNLIT is happy and thankful to be honoured with the “Prakrti Mitra Award”, instituted jointly by BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore and Heritage, a non-profit NGO. The award was received on behalf of PNLIT by trustee

Living as a forgotten memory

September 25, 2015 Divya Sreedharan

The year 2015 will end on a momentous note for my family–my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. Not that the occasion matters to my father. Places, events, dates, anniversaries, birthdays, festivals, names, and sometimes, people too,

BBMP should build roads that are not susceptible to potholes

September 25, 2015 Ashwin Mahesh

Pic: Prashant Kamat. Keeping the roads free of potholes is quite simple. Everywhere in the world, cities do this all the time. How? By doing three or four key things. First, they build roads of

Birdwatching at Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake 20th Sep 2015

September 19, 2015 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake and Bird Conservation Trust (YPLBCT) is organising a birdwatching session on Sunday 20th September 2015, at Puttenahalli Lake, Yelahanka, India’s newest Conservation Reserve. Dr Subramanya will be the guide. Read more about the Conservation

Rocky Ka Insaaf: Theatre Review

September 18, 2015 Deepa Mohan

After a long absence, it was refreshing to enter my favourite theatre space, Ranga Shankara, once again, this time to watch a Hindi play, “Rocky Ka Insaaf”, staged by Mashaal. The play has been

Conservation Reserve in the City

September 16, 2015 Arathi Manay Yajaman

It is now official. Puttenahalli Lake Birds Conservation Reserve is now a reality! Puttenahalli Lake in Yelahanka has been declared a “Conservation Reserve” by the Karnataka Government. Bangalore Mirror’s article dated 14th Sep 2015 says: The move makes

The inconvenient convenience

September 16, 2015 Deepa Mohan

Surely by now the Horticulture Department at Lalbagh knows that there are a very large number of walkers early in the mornings, even more so on weekends. A very tiday and neat-looking toilet has been

How the Boy got his Drum at Puttenahalli Lake on 12th Sept.

September 16, 2015 Usha Rajagopalan

Thank god it didn’t rain! We never thought we would say this but it was important that the early evening of Sat. 12th Sept remained nice and dry. “Keshavraju Thippaswamy” wanted a drum above everything else.

A house of glass

September 15, 2015 Deepa Mohan

A house made of glass That belongs to times past. Dreaming in the sunshine In a world now paced rather fast. The sun, however, rises Just as it used to do When people from other

Harassment of visitors at Lalbagh

September 14, 2015 Deepa Mohan

Entry to Lalbagh Botanical Gardens is free up to 8.30am, and cameras are not charged. The entry ticket business has been outsourced to some private organization. Yesterday (13 September 2015), we noticed people from this

The Un-green Ganeshas

September 11, 2015 Deepa Mohan

They wait, in their toxic colours in swathed in plastic, these un-green Ganeshas…a miniscule mimority tries to make green idols, much older people remember a time when a little pinch of mud or turmeric was

Women’s wrists and men’s legs…

September 11, 2015 Deepa Mohan

It seems to be men who transport these colourful bangles all over the cities and villages…rainbow fragility on women’s wrists that are given in fours at religious festivals,and adorn, in dozens, a pregnant woman’s arms.

Farewell Bengaluru! This is Holly Thorpe signing off…

September 11, 2015 Holly Thorpe

Hello, dear reader, with whom I’ve shared so much. If you’re reading this, it means the time has come for me to leave. Perhaps, as you’re rubbing your weary eyes and preparing for bed, I’m