March | 2016 | Citizen Matters, Blogs

Musical presentation of Kannada poetry

March 23, 2016 Chitra Srikrishna

When British entrepreneur William Seighart founded National Poetry Day his intention was to promote poetry and recognize the works of talented poets. In his words,”They (poets) shouldn’t be embarrassed about reading their work out aloud. I

The Master Meterer – Krishnamoorthy

March 23, 2016 Shubha Ramachandran

Water Metering is an often discussed topic, and apartment metering, even more so, due to the complications rising out of multiple inlets. There have been a few and often spoken about apartments that have implemented

VES Studies in Urban Areas (Yemalur Watershed)

March 17, 2016 Shubha Ramachandran

A map of the area under study. Pic: Biome As part of the participatory aquifer management studies in the Yemalur watershed, we conducted a Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) survey to get a clear geological profile

How porous can the city become?

March 15, 2016 Kiran Keswani

In a discussion on ‘The City in the World’ as part of the IIHS City Scripts festival in Bangalore, K.T.Ravindran, Professor & Head of the Urban design department for the last 20 years at the School

What is “Illegal dumping”?

March 13, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I saw this notice in the Arekere Reserve Forest today. What is “illegal dumping”? Is there any “legal dumping”? And the amount of trash that lies behind the notice gives the lie to the message

The BMTC Vayu Vajra service is not customer-friendly

March 12, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Bengaluru has a lot of flights landing and taking off in the early hours of the morning. But if passengers are looking for Vayu Vajra buses, they will find that at precisely the hours when

Some ideas on how the State can help Bengaluru in budget

March 11, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Here is an extract from my proposals to the government on things to include in the State Budget, 2016-17: (a) The Master Plan for Bengaluru and other cities being statutory, the State Budget each year

Lose-lose propositions on public expenditure need to change

March 10, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

For the first time, I feel that the long-sought Commuter Rail System is within reach. The state government appears willing to fund this in the Budget, and an initial round of money should help create

Unhappy Women’s Days…

March 10, 2016 Deepa Mohan

On Marth 8th, my maid borrowed money to take her alchoholic and hypochondriac husband to the doctor…the fourth time in a week. The lady who sells vegetables in the local market told me how all

The only city that has a TREE STORY to tell…

March 9, 2016 Kiran Keswani

How do you begin to like Bangalore when you have moved here from elsewhere? I remember when we first came here 8 years ago, I yearned for anything that would remind me of Bombay, where

Autorickshaws and their engines

March 8, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I think it started inb the year 2000, when autorickshaws of Bangalore, the drivers of which love to add little touches to their vehicles, started adding the number “2000” to the back of their autosM

This Women’s Day, let’s salute all the women making Bengaluru better!

March 8, 2016 Shree D N

Pink advertisements are all over the media. It’s raining offers for women all over e-commerce websites. A newspaper carries the T-20 cricket schedule, where a pink section highlights the schedule for women’s T-20 cricket matches. It’s

Silver Chariots at Gayatri Vihar…

March 5, 2016 Deepa Mohan

It’s always nice to see the variety of vehicles in Bangalore, but surely this silve chariot, parked outside the gates of Gayatri Vihar (the new board says Sheesh Mahal…sheesh!) takes the traffic cake! I

Is it legal for Residents’ Associations to clamp car wheels and levy fines?

March 5, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Here is a news story about how a visitor’s car wheel was clamped and she was fined Rs 500. It’s all very well for the Residents’ Association to say that the rules warn that the

Entrepreneurs: Thinking on the move!

March 2, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Of late where there are parked cars (for example, in front of restaurants) I’ve been noticing a lot of young men with various implements, and I realised that they offer to carry out repairs/ rectify