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Of festivals, price rise and farmers…

October 3, 2017 Revathi Siva Kumar

The prices had been high in the past three years due to lack of rains, and now they are high because of excessive rains. Both ways, it’s the farmers and vendors that are hit.

In love with Bengaluru’s metro

August 9, 2017 Kennedy Wirth

“I ride alongside business people aggressively typing out texts, giggling school children, backpack-clad college students, women with grocery bags, men talking on the phone, young couples tightly gripping each others’ hands and teenagers with music blaring out their earphones. There is no touristy glamour. For a second I feel slightly less of an outsider.”

Our new look

June 6, 2013 Subramaniam Vincent

Hello. Effective June 2013, Citizen Matters gets a new look and also a new engine and wheels underneath the stuff you see, read, and contribute to! We’ve made a number of changes. If you are

Why is covering school books with brown paper mandatory?

June 4, 2013 Deepa Mohan

It’s the beginning of a new year in schools across the south of India, and once again, I see a massive, and avoidable, wastage occurring…that of brown paper. Every year, children go to a new

Eat right

7 right foods for the summer

May 23, 2013 Sweta Uchil-Purohit

With hot days and rainy nights, check what’s on your plate. And there is a place for leftover rice too!

Ideas at Work

A deliberate political action group for Bengaluru

February 3, 2013 Ashwin Mahesh

It’s a very unusual development in the annals of democracy in India – for the first time, a deliberate political action group, with a specific agenda to be pursued through its activities, is being formed

Please, please, mera change vaapas keejiye, please sir

December 9, 2012 Subramaniam Vincent

"Please, please, mera change vaapas keejiye, please sir." She was in her thirties, nicely dressed in a blue churidhar with a gold-ish lining, spectacled, and worried. Furiously issuing tickets, the uniformed BMTC person she was

Who doesn’t want to use a Volvo?

November 28, 2012 Subramaniam Vincent

In two years, I have gone from experimenting with public transport in Bengaluru to becoming a full user. I use the bus system almost 4 days a week, and carry the second most expensive bus-pass

Forward Bellandur

Kaikondarahalli lake photo contest: Winners selected

October 24, 2012 Priya Ramasubban

The Kaikondrahalli Lake team is paying tribute to the lake by inviting photographers to participate in a unique exhibition about the lake. In a photocontest held in September, Bangaloreans submitted the following entries: The 20

Bangalore South Local

Chlorophyll Conversations

Letting children close to nature

August 2, 2012 Vinita

Typically, urban children today are given little or no opportunity for physical contact with nature. They spend less time in and with nature – so how can they build a relationship with it?

Of festivals, price rise and farmers…

In love with Bengaluru’s metro

Our new look

Why is covering school books with brown paper mandatory?

7 right foods for the summer

A deliberate political action group for Bengaluru

Please, please, mera change vaapas keejiye, please sir

Who doesn’t want to use a Volvo?

Kaikondarahalli lake photo contest: Winners selected

Residents “care for Jayanagar”, organise Waste Management workshop

Was it dengue?

Street food trend: Dosa fusion

Saluting the teachers

Meet The Gastronaut

Letting children close to nature