INTERVIEWS

Aditi De talks about Bangalore, being Bangalorean and the recently published anthology, Multiple City, a collection of writings on Bangalore, that she edited.

Meet Roopa Pai, a Bangalore-based writer who is doing her bit to introduce and preserve the city’s heritage, through her writings and heritage walks.

An interview with a Bengaluru-based Naturopath tells us how the human body can be healed if it is aligned in harmony with nature.

She doesn’t complain much about Bengaluru today, and has pointed views on family, culture and dressing. Meet the quiet and contented octgenarian, B Kamala, former General Manager of Canara Bank.

SAHAI is a dedicated suicide helpline that you can call and hope to find a friendly, helpful voice that gives you hope, courage and strength. A conversation with Anita Gracias, a SAHAI volunteer.

Bangalore’s popular and pro-active theatre personality Arundhati Nag shares vignettes of her life and dreams with Deepa Mohan for Citizen Matters.

Commissioner Praveen Sood heads Bangalore’s heavily stressed traffic police force. In this interview to Citizen Matters, he gives his view of the rapidly worsening mess he has come to oversee.

Why cannot the HAL airport coexist with the new BIAL airport? What about the steep user fees BIAL is charging? BIAL CEO Albert Brunner in an interview to Citizen Matters.

He’s the head of the Citizen Action Forum (CAF), an organisation of citizens and citizens associations who believe in offering solutions, not just pointing out the problem. Meet N S Mukunda.

The corrupt have everywhere to run, but what does the Karnataka Lokayukta need to ensure that they have no place to hide? See what Justice Santosh Hegde has to say in this interview to Citizen Matters.

Widowed in 1913, Amba Bai started teaching at Bangalore from 1942 and retired as head mistress of Vani Vilas High School. Vimala Murthy, her grand-daughter recently published a book on her. She
spoke to Charumathi Supraja on Ambi.

Autorickshaws in the city recently went on strike to press their case for a hike in the minimum fare from Rs.12 to Rs.20. Srinivas Murthy, head of Autorickshaw Drivers’ Union cites rising costs of living as one reason. He spoke to Samuel Jacob.