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Our token love for our country

August 21, 2017 Deepa Mohan

On the 17th of August, 2017, I was walking along, musing on the fact that we are now in the eighth decade of our existence of an independent nation. Everywhere there had been an outburst

The harm we cause….

March 25, 2017 Deepa Mohan

I got this photo of a stray dog, with a plastic juice or shake container in its mouth. We have now conditioned even the animals around us to like processed food, lots of

Lows and highs of laving a lake full of water!

June 8, 2016 Usha Rajagopalan

A dry for years lake finally looks like a proper water body. Ever since we took up the cause of Puttenahalli Lake over seven years ago, this had been one of our goals – to

What is “Illegal dumping”?

March 13, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I saw this notice in the Arekere Reserve Forest today. What is “illegal dumping”? Is there any “legal dumping”? And the amount of trash that lies behind the notice gives the lie to the message

Quick response to eco-feedback by IIM-Bangalore

February 17, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I conducted the Campus Bird Count at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, on two days, Saturday, 13th Feb, and Sunday, 14th Feb 2016. I had already mentioned that as birders and naturalists, our team

Where is Swacch Bharat? Definitely not on Indian Railways!

December 10, 2014 Deepa Mohan

Litter along the railway tracks I travelled from Bangalore to Delhi and all along the tracks, I found vast quantities of plastic and other litter, thrrown not only by careless passengers, but, to my horror,

Garbage clearance at Casa Ansal, Bannerghatta Road, along with the “Ugly Indian”

May 17, 2014 Deepa Mohan

The residents of Casa Ansal, in J P Nagar 3rd Phase on Bannerghatta Road, have been suffering from the shifting of the trash area from the Mini-Forest area to their southern wall, where it was

A trash trail with business leaders

January 31, 2013 Ashwin Mahesh

I went on a 3 hour trip with a few industry leaders as well as BBMP officials yesterday, looking at some of the ‘trail’ of waste in the city. The idea was to get buy-in