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How electricity reaches our homes

May 29, 2013 Deepa Mohan

The Managing Director of BESCOM, Mr Manivannan, has been spearheading a movement on FaceBook, to bring various facets of this hitherto opaque Government organization to the public. Various initiatives have been launched, and the latest

Our lake of dreams coming true

May 22, 2013 Usha Rajagopalan

Based on a total station survey done by Enzen Global in Aug. 2011, PNLIT got the BBMP to install a new diversion channel (DC) to harvest surface run off from the Brigade Millennium road into

Did YOU vote?

May 5, 2013 Deepa Mohan

My friend Sravana Dasary posted this: That’s a great way to document the fact that her family’s voted! Each of us needs to vote, to take an active part in our own governance…to ensure that

Reap the benefits of gardening

April 25, 2013 Arathi Manay Yajaman

People who participate in community gardening have a significantly lower body mass index (BMI), as well as lower odds of being overweight, than their non-gardening neighbours and siblings. This is according to a study by

This weekend’s gardening

April 6, 2013 Usha Rajagopalan

I guess the heat was too much and not many volunteers turned up this weekend. Those who did brave the sun did a wonderful job though. Yesterday, 6th April, some eight of us were scattered

Seminar on Wildlife Conservation

March 31, 2013 Deepa Mohan

The Sloth Bear Foundation presents: Wildlife Conservation and You at S Hotel 60, 13th Cross, 2nd Main, Phase III, J P Nagar Bangalore 560078 +91 80 4245 6060 and at Aloft Hotel 17C, Sadaramangala Road

Environment

Hope and Colours at Puttenahalli Lake

March 26, 2013 Usha Rajagopalan

In this season of colours, our lake bed may seem drab, devoid of water but for us at PNLIT, it is a sign of hope. The brown piles of drying Salvinia is the final leg

The weekend is here again!

March 14, 2013 Usha Rajagopalan

Volunteers who attended last weekend’s deweeding sessions at Puttenahalli Lake admit it was hard, but satisfying work. Though we had dissuaded children from “working”, there were several who accompanied their parents and finally joined in. Here is

Environment

Report on the volunteering weekend at Puttenahalli Lake

March 11, 2013 Usha Rajagopalan

Saturday, 9th March 2013 With some 20 volunteers responding to our call to remove the drying aquatic weed from the lake bed, it was a most satisfying morning today! Their enthusiasm was infectious and several

Woman’s ingenuity at Puttenahalli Lake

March 7, 2013 Usha Rajagopalan

We at PNLIT feel blessed and privileged to get an opportunity to see the revival of a lake at such close quarters. We cherish the experience and want to share it with everybody. After all,

Banking Ombudsman at the Reserve Bank of India

March 7, 2013 Deepa Mohan

All of us have problems with our banks from time to time. But when the problem lasts, unresolved, beyond 30 days, many of us are not aware that we can turn to the Banking Ombudsman

A good helpline for stray dog problems

March 5, 2013 Deepa Mohan

Click here for the website of an NGO called Sarvodaya. They help Bangalore citizens with issues regarding stray dogs, and implement the ABC (Animal Birth Control) process instead of killing the dogs. The mobile no.

Bannerghatta Butterfly Park personnel kill a bird for catching butterflies…

March 3, 2013 Deepa Mohan

Bird watchers know that all Flycatchers catch bees, wasps, dragonflies, butterflies and other insects as part of their diet. (Indeed, so do many other birds.) So…you’d expect the personnel manning the Butterfly Park in the

The Great Backyard Bird Count

February 11, 2013 Deepa Mohan

Dear birding friends, A quick note to ask whether you might be interested in joining us in a funbirding event on 14-18 Feb. On those dates, birders across the world willbe taking part in the

Environment

Human Chain for Arekere Lake, 16th Feb ’13

February 10, 2013 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Arekere Neighbourhood Lake Improvement Trust (ANIT) is doing everything it can, to properly save Arekere Lake. The lake is located not far from Puttenahalli Lake, on the other side of Bannerghatta Rd. Please see the