July, 2016 Citizen Matters, Blogs

What to do if you lose your driving licence

July 28, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I am giving below, the lengthy and tedious process of getting a replacement driver’s licence, with references to the specific places and processes I myself followed. My driver’s licence was stolen, along with other documents

What to do if you lose your Senior Citizen card/How to get a Senior Citizen card in south Bangalore

July 28, 2016 Deepa Mohan

My Senior Citizen card was stolen, along with other documents, on 23rd June 2016. on a bus (route no. 366) between Richmond Circle and MICO Checkpost bus sto Since I’d got my card from the

What to do if you lose your debit/credit cards

July 28, 2016 Deepa Mohan

1. Immediately block the cards.Every bank has a number that can be called 24/7 to report the loss of the cards. Please keep the credit/debit cards numbers handy. This is a very important step as

What to do if you lose various documents (Senior Citizen card, Driving Licence, Debit/credit cards)

July 28, 2016 Deepa Mohan

On the 23rd of June, my purse, along with several documents, was stolen on Bus Route no. 366, between Richmond Circle and MICO Checkpost bus stops at about 1.30 pm. I decided to make a

Thank you Bengaluru, and my apologies to Kannadigas…

July 24, 2016 Kate Clark

I am here to apologize to all the Indians, the Kannadigas I’ve met in the last three weeks. Immediately upon meeting you, you either spoke to me in English, with the assumption that of course

Excellent Carnatic violin concert at IIM-B

July 21, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Once in a while, one is privileged to attend a concert that not many people seem to know about, Indian Institute of Managerment, Bangalore (IIMB) and The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And

Day-Long Cleaning Drive and Tree Planting at Horamavu Agara Kere

July 17, 2016 Arathi Manay Yajaman

On Saturday, 16-July-2016, Horamavu Parisara Abhivruddhi Samiti (HPAS) organised an intensive day-long lake cleaning and beautification event at the Horamavu Agara Kere. More than 100 people participated in the event. In addition to local residents, students from Mount

Why Indiranagar residents don’t want an indoor stadium

July 12, 2016 Praveen S

In November 2015, Indirangar residents had taken to streets against the plans to convert a playground into a cricket pitch. Now there’s a plan for the same ground to be converted into an indoor stadium.

How much does a groundwater recharge well cost?

July 10, 2016 Shubha Ramachandran

Pic: Shubha Ramachandran Often times we (BIOME) are asked to compare the prices of recharge wells quoted by various well diggers. After speaking with the clients, we realise that they maybe comparing apples to oranges.

Art is everywhere

July 7, 2016 Deepa Mohan

One usually associates art, and artistic aesthetics, only with people who have the money and the leisure to spare for it (I’m not talking about those who by art as an investment here). But if

The Samosa mela at Shivajinagar

July 5, 2016 Kiran Keswani

The Samosa Mela at Shivajinagar is a study conducted as part of a CEPT-CPP Summer school on The Everyday City that was held in June 2016 at the IIM Bangalore campus. It was a collaborative

Bengaluru and Seattle: two cities experiencing ‘Amageddon’

July 4, 2016 Kate Clark

A night view of M G Road. Pic: Shree D N After finding out I would be coming to Bengaluru, an Indian city I knew just as the “Silicon Valley of India,” having grown up

People on the pavement: The panipuri wallahs

July 4, 2016 Deepa Mohan

We often stop at one of the beautifully designed cane “stalls”, which can be packed up and carried around, and equally quickly set up somewhere on the roadside. Little puffed, fried balls of semolina, in

BBMP, please don’t make a mockery of RTI!

July 3, 2016 Akshatha M

How many legal and illegal hoardings are there in Bengaluru and how to identify them? Looking for a complete location-specific data? Chances are that you will never ever get it. In the month of April,

Theatre Review: Kitchen Poems, Ranga Shankara, 2 and 3 Jul 2016

July 2, 2016 Deepa Mohan

It’s always intriguing to watch poetry being dramatized, and I was keen on going to watch “Kitchen Poems” by Dhiruben Patel, a 90+ year-old Gujarati writer. Padmavathi Rao, who was the solo actor in this