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Back to chaos….

July 22, 2019 Deepa Mohan

As of 15 July 2019, the demolition of the Jayadeva Flyover, 11 years after it was built, has started, with the upper part (leading from Bannerghatta Road to Outer Ring Road) being closed to traffic.

Volunteer Traffic Police?

May 1, 2019 Deepa Mohan

On the 24th of April, 2019, as I passed the IIM-B/HSBC junction in a bus, I found this elderly gentleman working very hard to direct traffic. He was working with a smile, which is not

Metro work goes on….

December 15, 2018 Deepa Mohan

Bannerghatta Road is already a mess, as one-third of the road is blocked for the work on the Metro. There is no transparency on how long the work will take, and no timeline for completion,

Silver chariot of the sun, on our roads

November 19, 2018 Deepa Mohan

It says a lot for the wondrous variety of vehicles on our roads, that a silver chariot of the sun, drawn by seven horses (and, presumably a little more horsepower), with regulation headlights, does not

A sight for summer-sore eyes

March 9, 2018 Deepa Mohan

I’ve been going to R V (Rashtriya Vidyalaya) College of Physiotherapy for, well, physiotherapy, and as I came out, this was what the avenue leading to the Jain temple and the Jayanagar bus terminus looked

Critically endangered species….

January 29, 2018 Deepa Mohan

We have thousands of runners but no place to just walk from A to B. I can no longer walk the less-than-a-kilometre stretch from my home to that of a friend on Bannerghatta Road. The

UFO…Under the FlyOver

August 23, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Some time ago, I documented a project by this name, where Jaaga and a team of volunteers made a determined attempt to beautify the space under Hebbal flyover. I was told that they’d also painted

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.”

Livelihoods: Driving others

June 23, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Every now and then, a glimpse into lives very different from our own, brings us up sharply against alternate realities. I am used to the notion of auto drivers as rough, rude people who will

Digging up the roads….

April 23, 2017 Deepa Mohan

At least this dug up part of Bannerghatta Road mentions that natural gas pipelines are being laid. But in most places, roads are dug up without warning and with no information about why the

Problem with plastic number “plat”

March 24, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Intrigued by the subject title? I am writing about the fact that the new plastic number plates on cars are, very frequently broken off during even small impacts with obstacles, leading to number plates that

Malpractices in collecting toll on NICE Road

January 2, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Yesterday (Sun, 1st Jan 2017) , at about 7.30pm, we drove on to the NICE Road (now it’s the NECE Road) at the Mysore Road junction, and there were long queues of cars waiting to

Spare a thought…

June 2, 2016 Deepa Mohan

We often see vendors like this girl I spotted at the Kanakapura Road/ORR junction, selling large balloons. It could be a variety of (usually Chinese) products: windshield shades, mobile phone charger cords, earbuds, dusters.

Usurping public roads for private parking

May 15, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I’ve written before on the practice many organisations indulge in, in appropriating the space in front of their buildings as ‘reserved’ parking spaces for themselves. I think the problem is assuming large proportions and the

Silver Chariots at Gayatri Vihar…

March 5, 2016 Deepa Mohan

It’s always nice to see the variety of vehicles in Bangalore, but surely this silve chariot, parked outside the gates of Gayatri Vihar (the new board says Sheesh Mahal…sheesh!) takes the traffic cake! I