Housing Citizen Matters, Blogs

An old age home….

January 19, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Dignity, and quality of life in one’s old age is not something given to all of us; sometimes, for various reasons, people have to take up residence in an old-age home. I recently visited one

What the new Bangalore may look like…

January 2, 2015 Deepa Mohan

I took this picture from the top of Nandi Hill. Well, OK, technically, it’s not Bangalore…yet. But remember the times when Whitefield, Sarjapura and Yelahanka were not Bangalore, either? The point I want to make

Demolish the walls of secrecy that facilitate encroachment!

March 6, 2014 Ashwin Mahesh

It is quite common in Bengaluru for builders and developers to build houses on other people’s lands, or on public lands like lakes. After all, the city used to have more than 500 lakes, and

How Confident group got away without providing amenities at Antlia

November 11, 2013 Moumita Bhattacharya

It’s been nearly 10 months that the Confident Group has stopped work on their incomplete project, Antlia 1, beside NH 207 that leads to Sarjapur, Bengaluru. This project was supposed to have been completed, including

Steps to prevent Ejipura crisis from getting worse

January 27, 2013 Ashwin Mahesh

Anyone watching the EWS evictions in Ejipura is bound to feel heartbroken for the victims. But this is a tragedy that need not have arisen at all. We allow these problems to build up right

Wheelchair access

September 20, 2010 Deepa Mohan

I was walking past the new Corporation Bank building in JP Nagar, and found that wheelchair access was provided: This got me thinking, and I started looking at other public buildings…and private ones too…and was

Captured

What recession?

September 28, 2009 Ravi Kaushik

Bangalore’s ever expanding skyline. ⊕

No accountability at all…

February 3, 2009 Deepa Mohan

Often, I find that public spaces like roads and footpaths are used as if they are there for our own convenience. I passed this plot of land being readied for construction a couple of days