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Puttenahalli Lake Stories

November 1, 2018 Usha Rajagopalan

Once in a while our best laid plans go awry at the lake. For instance, from the time the lake was getting rejuvenated in early 2010, we had reserved a prime space for a Red-Silk

Let’s pitch in to keep our communities clean, safe and strong

July 27, 2018 Raghukumar Choodamani

A citizen journalist chronicles the transformation of his neighbourhood from a quiet place to a bustling one in 40 years, bringing in its wake several civic issues. He describes how collective action has helped him and his neighbours in keeping their community clean, safe and strong! Are you going to pitch in for your neighbourhood?

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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

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Beautiful woodcarvings at Lalbagh Botanical Garden

March 2, 2018 Deepa Mohan

I went to visit Lalbagh on 3rd March, and was pleasantly surprised, at the area where the majestic Ficus benjamina trees are (leading from Kempe Gowda’s tower to the Glass Hoouse) being used to set

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Saving a tree: a rare sight in Bengaluru

October 6, 2017 Deepa Mohan

As I was on the Outer Ring Road, I saw the welcome sight of a tree being translocated. http:// It was good to see the tree being moved so carefully, with even its chopped branches

An open letter from a Krumbiegel

June 16, 2017 News Desk

With the greatest respect to the Minister of Sericulture and Animal Husbandry, GH Krumbiegel was my great grandfather, I am only an interloper in Bengaluru I do however have his passion for trees and my profession is

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Citizens For Bengaluru join the BBMP Vanamahotsav Walkathon

May 20, 2017 Tara Krishnaswamy

BBMP has announced a Vanamahotsav walkathon tomorrow, Sunday May 21st, to encourage the public to plant 10 lakh saplings in the city in order to increase green cover. It is seeking active public participation to

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Trees, Culture & Urban Design: a CEPT Winter School in Bangalore

April 4, 2017 Kiran Keswani

In December 2016, a workshop on ‘Trees, Culture & Urban design’ was held in Bangalore as part of CEPT University’s Summer Winter School program. The focus of this 10-day winter school was to study the

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How do we treat our trees?

December 29, 2016 Deepa Mohan

We often nail signs to our trees, loop cables over them, and of course, think nothing of choping them off for the flimisiest of reasons, for example if one obstructs a hoarding. But even when

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Indira Nagar celebrates Environment Day

June 5, 2016 Poornima Kannan

Trees as we all know are of great importance for the whole human fraternity as well as managing the natural balance in the environment. However, we human beings are regularly cutting down the trees for

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Spotted: 27 species of trees

April 25, 2016 Poornima Kannan

Spurred by the recent tree cutting incident in the vicinity of the neighbourhood, a tree walk was organised on the morning of April 23rd by the BM Residents Welfare Association in Indira Nagar 1st Stage,

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Walk among the trees of Indiranagar

April 19, 2016 Praveen S

If you love nature, like walking among trees and flowers, and want to know more about our green heritage, this is the walk for you. If you know absolutely nothing about trees or nature, you

When a tree falls, a community bands together

April 6, 2016 News Desk

On 31st March 2016, a 40-year-old African Tuilip tree in Indiranagar 1st stage, home to hundreds of parakteets and scores of nests nurturing young ones, was brutally felled by the BBMP. The reason: it was

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The only city that has a TREE STORY to tell…

March 9, 2016 Kiran Keswani

How do you begin to like Bangalore when you have moved here from elsewhere? I remember when we first came here 8 years ago, I yearned for anything that would remind me of Bombay, where

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Personnel in BBMP to contact if you see trees being chopped down

March 2, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Sudarshan Nityananda gives the following contact numbers: South Bangalore comes under Mr Ranganathswamy,DCF-BBMP.His number is 9480683842. His senior is Mr N D Sudarshan who sits in the BBMp premises.His number is 9480684566. The third

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