June, 2016 Citizen Matters, Blogs

Metro phase 3 along Outer Ring Road: for which era?

June 29, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Over the last few days, it was reported that Metro stations at Silk Board and K R Puram will be developed as transit points, so that in the future we could have a line running

Listening even as we perform

June 27, 2016 Chitra Srikrishna

“Did you see how she did that?” I was lucky enough to attend numerous concerts, most often at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja, with my late guru Seethalakshmi Venkatesan. In every concert, we had attended together,

Some things you can do to minimize problems if your debit/credit cards are stolen

June 21, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Today, on the bus, my purse, along with all my documents…credit card, debit card, driving licence, senior citizen card, and so on…were stolen. One thing that helped me immensely is that I had made a

Hotel Karnataka: Kingsley Jegan Joseph

June 20, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Kingsley Jegan Joseph has created this marvellous version of “Hotel California”. Compliments can be sent to Kingsley. Hotel Karnataka On a dark desi highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of parottas, rising up

Recruiting for a Junior Global Advisory Panel

June 16, 2016 Arathi Manay Yajaman

As there are many people in Bangalore who would be eligible, reproducing this interesting assignment… from http://reachwater.org.uk/

WITH the government, WITHIN the government, and AS the government

June 15, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Over the last two years I have written extensively about the emerging new idea of governance around the world. Historically in democracies, we paid a lot of attention to government FOR the people, and government

Sure you aren’t contributing to garbage?

June 14, 2016 Whitefield Rising

Garbage isn’t exactly Rocket Science but given the filth around us, one would think it is! Given that the Government struggles with Execution and Enforcement of its well thought out policies and programs, we looked

Ground realities

June 9, 2016 Divya Sreedharan

Our little man went back to school on Monday. We watched him put on his new t-shirt, wear his new pair of shoes. We watched him walking with his new school bag, new lunch bag,

Citizens to clean Chunchughatta Lake

June 9, 2016 Arathi Manay Yajaman

“Garbage, sewage and construction debris are eating up Bengaluru’s Chunchaghatta lake situated in the Konankunte ward, adjacent to Eshwar Layout in southern JP Nagar.” This is what an article on Citizen Matters said, more than

Getting the Aadhar card, 10 June 2016

June 9, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Having missed every opportunity to get one, I finally went to get my Aadhar card along with my daughter today. For a while now, I’ve been trying to find the centres where the Aadhar card

Lows and highs of laving a lake full of water!

June 8, 2016 Usha Rajagopalan

A dry for years lake finally looks like a proper water body. Ever since we took up the cause of Puttenahalli Lake over seven years ago, this had been one of our goals – to

When a dream takes wings, a girl shines

June 8, 2016 Pravir Bagrodia

Deepanjali Mishra. Pic: Pravir B. Sukanti and Bhagirathi Mishra are on cloud nine. Since May 28, when the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results for Grade 10 board examination, these Whitefield residents

My grandchild’s school, and why we are very happy she’s there

June 8, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Aradhana Academy is not on the list of “elite” schools of Bangalore. But here’s our experience. I sent this email to Rajane Prasad, Admissions Co-ordinator, and Sister Moly, the Principal of the School. Dear Ms

Run4Lake Vibhutipura

June 6, 2016 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Team VIKAS is organising Run4Lake – to create awareness about Vibhutipura Lake. The location of the lake can be seen on googlemaps here. Runners will need to complete two laps around the lake, starting at Utkarsh

Reviving a dead lake in Akshayanagar Layout

June 6, 2016 Sapna Prabhu

This is the Akshayanagara Lake. Less than three years ago, it was a nothing but a patch of land with overgrown weeds and sewage as seen below. The transformation is the work of a group