Satarupa is National Editor at Citizen Matters. She has over 16 years of editorial and content experience across a variety of genres and formats. Apart from engaging in overall editorial supervision and participation in key editorial policy-making, she ideates, edits and occasionally writes stories for the various chapters of the magazine.
Before joining Citizen Matters, Satarupa was Editor of a print magazine on business education, Advanc'edge MBA. She has also been a news editor at the newsdesk at MSN India before joining India Together, an online development and public affairs magazine, as its Associate Editor.
Satarupa holds a Masters degree in Economics from Calcutta University and keenly follows social and development initiatives across cities in India.
Over the last one week, thousands of Indian students and youth across India, inspired by the Global Climate Strike organised by ‘Fridays for Future’, marched together to demand immediate action to mitigate local and global climate risks. What should be the way forward?
Who will the police pin the blame on in this case, as the employee is not on the rolls of the school? The names are not out, no arrests made. This is in stark contrast to the Frazer Town case.
As an apartment owner in the city, whom would you turn to if you discover that your builder has not registered the Deed of Declaration? Or that the apartment association has been wrongly registered? After decades, some redress may finally be on the anvil.
Protestors expressing solidarity with evicted residents of Ejipura at a march on the 9th of February come up against hardhanded opposition from police yet again.
BPAC, founded by prominent Bangaloreans including Mohandas Pai and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, wants to identify and support strong election candidates. Santosh Hegde, B N Vijayakumar and Rajeev Gowda share their thoughts too.
The youth in Bengaluru have shown that they do not come out only for protesting against corruption or gang-rape. This time, Ejipura’s slum dwellers, dumped in the streets by BBMP, are getting their support.
