Karthik Ranganathan Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Dec 19th – Bengaluru’s day of dissent and detentions

December 20, 2019 Karthik Ranganathan

Despite the curfew, Bengaluru saw huge, spontaneous protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act yesterday. Here is an account of the protests, police crackdown, and what followed

In 21st century Bengaluru, men still die cleaning manholes

April 26, 2016 Karthik Ranganathan

Despite the government schemes to rehabilitate manual scavengers, the scavenging still continues. The caste stigma attached to it has become inseparable—jobs of sanitary workers are reserved to SC/STs, even in this modern era of computers and the internet!

4-year-old Nawaz loses the battle for his life at DJ Halli

February 28, 2015 Karthik Ranganathan

4-year-old Nawaz passed away from pneumonia. Afflicted with cerebral palsy, he was also severely malnourished. The responsibility for his death could very well fall on the hospital that refused to treat him.

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120 applications for disability certificates processed at DJ Halli camp for differently-abled

August 21, 2014 Karthik Ranganathan

While 120 new applications for disability certificates were processed at the 2 day camp at DJ Halli, several differently-abled persons were turned away as doctors had come ill-prepared, without necessary equipment.

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Two more kids aged 7, weighing 12 kg, found in D J Halli

August 21, 2013 Karthik Ranganathan

Yesterday – Anjaneya. Today Meghala. How many more kids should die before malnourishment is tackled? Isn’t this a testimony to the carelessness of the IT city, Bangalore, towards its poor and underprivileged?

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Aged 6, weighing 12kg, she dies a quiet death

August 5, 2013 Karthik Ranganathan

A tale of two little girls in Bangalore – Meghala, 6 and Disha, 3. Both of them fell sick around the same time. Disha recovered quickly and is back to her bubbly self. Meghala died on 17 July. Was she a child of a lesser god?

Mass media surrounds Medha at Ejipura frenzy

February 17, 2013 Karthik Ranganathan

Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan visited the Koramangala EWS site, in support of the evicted residents. A volunteer reflects on the impact on the media coverage.

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Bulldozers and pipes – life takes a different meaning

January 23, 2013 Karthik Ranganathan

Spending time with the evicted community of Ejipura’s EWS quarters, observer Karthik Ranganathan poignantly captures their lives and voices today.