senior citizens | Citizen Matters, Blogs

My post-COVID wishlist

July 22, 2020 Sudha Narasimhachar

All of us are fed up of reading and listening to news about this dreadful COVID-19 pandemic. Such a small virus has caused such turbulence in the entire world. None of us ever imagined such

A Seniors’ meet with a difference…

January 16, 2019 Deepa Mohan

We have several group for senior citizens in our city, but today (16 Jan,2019) I attended a meet of senior citizens…the common factor between them being that their children are living in Portland, Oregon, in

Making a will: Why and how it should be done

August 30, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Silver Talkies is an e-magazine for senior citizens, and one of the many useful articles I’ve seen is the one written by advocate Shiv Kumar about why one should write a will, and how one

Endangered species….

July 19, 2017 Deepa Mohan

A greatly endangered species: the urban pedestrian. I just crossed Bannerghatta Road at great peril to my life. I waited about 10 mins for the traffic to ease, and still had to weave through vehicles

How I am treated on BMTC buses as a woman senior citizen

July 5, 2017 Deepa Mohan

…Mostly, without any courtesy, is my sad answer. I do not own a car, and use public transportation (read buses…the Metro is yet to be within useful reach for me). I know that senior citizens

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

Silver Talkies: Art, Coffee, and Conversation Event at Apaulogy Gallery

March 7, 2014 Deepa Mohan

I met a lot of interesting people today. My friend Jayashree Govindarajan put me in touch with Nidhi Manoj and Reshmi Chakraborti, who have been, for the past two years, running an e-magazine called Silver