As several migrant workers were left without subsistence following the lockdown, three residents of Sadashivanagar went around to identify them, pool resources and then distribute rations.
As many as 33,000 people travel through the airport every day, while 10 lakh people travel through the Majestic area, using buses or trains. The investment on the airport is 100 times the money spent on Majestic. Where do the priorities lie?
There is going to be a spanking new Bangalore, in a few years time – soulless, devoid of history, devoid of trees, devoid of culture, designed for automobiles rather than for people.
We in Bangalore are at the beginning of the ‘ruin-then-restore’ cycle. We can either learn from those (like Seoul) who have gone ahead of us down this path and changed course recently, or go down the same path.