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HomeOff Beat

Off Beat

Posts by Citizen Matters staff writers, on what doesn’t get into the published stories…
Shree D N is Associate Editor, Citizen Matters. She tweets at @chilipili.

Off Beat

Getting lost in Auroville and a chance meeting with two incredible Aussie travelers

July 31, 2017 Akshatha M

The way life throws surprises at you! It was on July 29th evening I was standing all alone in some corner of Auroville, located at a distance of around 12 kilometres from the main town

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RTI lessons: how to chase officials hiding the data

September 29, 2016 Akshatha M

The documents/ replies that I have received from various offices of BBMP in the last five months, to my RTI query on illegal hoardings, are piled up before me. Yet, they have no data that

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Civic

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,

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Off Beat

The Me, My gadget, My video generation

February 17, 2016 Shree D N

On a highway leading to a cold, cold city, a two-wheeler rider was mowed down by a speeding lorry on a hot morning. He pleaded for help, without even realising that his body was torn

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Governance

If wishes were horses…

January 8, 2015 Varsha Parashivamurthy

If you wondered why there was no special write up from Citizen Matters for the new year, here’s our excuse. Well, we did have a spectacular plan, however all the folks who needed to be

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Off Beat

When Marilyn Monroe comes to Bengaluru

December 3, 2014 News Desk

  Ammu Joseph, veteran journalist based in Bangalore, highlights one of several contradictions in Bengaluru, on Facebook: “These photos were clicked and shared by a friend, who questioned the manager of the mall about this

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Governance

Not just citizens, the government too needs to help clean India

November 21, 2014 Ganga Madappa

On October 2nd, Prime Minister Modi announced Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Mission Clean India. In his speech, he appealed to Indians to devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness. He also stated, “It

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Off Beat

You did not pay for your chaat!

August 28, 2014 Ganga Madappa

Since the beginning of May, my life has taken a turn. Late evenings which would have been typically spent as a sloth, are now reserved for exercising at Namma Crossfit. To call it addictive is

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Commute

Sarjapur Road: No entry for pedestrians!

June 12, 2014 Shree D N

Having to commute by bus from Malleshwaram to Citizen Matters office – on Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru, has been a true eye-opener to me. The major learning has been this: Own a vehicle, and learn to

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Health

Locating an accident victim in Bangalore: Some lessons

July 17, 2013 Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya

I had one of the most disturbing experiences of my life yesterday. Got a phone call around 4 pm from Bangalore Traffic Police with one man – speaking fast and furious in Kannada – telling

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Governance

Hired supporters ‘volunteer’ for candidates

May 8, 2013 News Desk

Election reporting is an interesting area. One gets to see the real faces of candidates and their followers, besides coming across a bunch of funny experiences. Here’s a collection of such experiences from the Citizen

Governance

CAG’s latest bag of exposes for Karnataka

February 19, 2013 Navya P K

The nation’s top auditor has an industrious staff at Bengaluru for sure. Last week, CAG’s Karnataka office relased their latest audit reports (read:scams), and it took a large carry bag to fit all their volumes. The picture says all.

Off Beat

No bribe? BBMP cannot help you

February 12, 2012 Satvik Kaushik

"Sir, what sir, you are so well-dressed and handsome, and all you give me is 60 rupees for getting your job done?" At first I was amazed how fast BBMP granted my simple request of

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Off Beat

Who says Journalism can’t be a lucrative career?

June 20, 2011 Yogaraj S Mudalgi

When I first took up journalism, everyone i knew advised me against it, especially my family. "But the pay is not that great!," they tried to reason with me. They were partially correct. True, it

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Off Beat

One man’s fast is another man’s food

June 6, 2011 Yogaraj S Mudalgi

On an overcast Sunday afternoon, I headed to Freedom Park to cover the anti corruption fast and protest over midnight raid by the UPA Government at Ramlila Grounds in Delhi.  As I parked my bike,

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