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HomeOPINION

OPINION

Swiggy workers on a break sitting on their bikes
Economy

Is ‘Digihenheimer’ an opportunity or vulnerability for gig workers in cities?

September 6, 2023 Dr KC Smitha

Despite employment diversity, gig workers face challenges such as lack of income safety nets, institutional regulatory mechanisms and skill training.

Tohid tunnel road
Infrastructure

Before Bengaluru gets bored with tunnel roads

August 18, 2023 Varadarajan Raman

The Tunnel Road Project aims to ease traffic congestion at an estimated cost of Rs. 50,000 crore. But due process must be followed in its implementation.

Bengaluru traffic police booking a violator
Commute

Criminalising routine traffic offences could seriously impact citizens

July 21, 2023 Nitin Seshadri

Traffic violators will be booked under Section 283. Paying a fine under this Section will result in a criminal conviction on one’s record.

BBMP ASHA workers on covid duty
Health

Can we rely on non-state actors to see us through the next pandemic?

June 29, 2023 Prof. Jonathan Schwartz

Some experts say that the ideal means of managing public health emergencies is through cooperation between state and non-state actors.

Voting at a polling booth
Governance

How can we “recruit” our MLAs when we know so little about them?

May 10, 2023 Meera K

How do you evaluate candidates and decide who to vote for? What is the information we need to make such an important decision?

Over 1000 protestors took to the stairs of Bengaluru's Townhall to join in the Climate Strike on September 20th. Pic: Fridays for Future, Karnataka
Governance

The right to protest: Criminalising democracy’s fundamental right despite constitutional guarantees

April 14, 2023 Mohith Shivakumar

Despite the constitutional guarantee on the right to protest, the space to exercise this fundamental right is shrinking by the day in our city.

The drain near Passport Seva Kendra
Environment

Do we need a reimagination of Bengaluru’s stormwater drains?

March 28, 2023 Pinky Chandran

The important aspect of reimagining stormwater drains is the negotiations of everydayness – from water, power, waste, transport, and governance.

Bangalore traffic jam Iblur Junction
Commute

How to make Bengaluru traffic jams go away

August 9, 2022 Nagesh Aras

Traffic jams can’t be wished away with a flyover or a wider road. Many measures have to be applied holistically. This is where Bengaluru flops.

people at a ward committee meeting held outdoors
Governance

Opinion: For participatory city governance, Bengaluru needs to evolve an urban philosophy and politics

July 19, 2022 M G Devasahayam

Giving people-centred urban politics shape and substance is the task cut out for Bengalureans on the eve of the forthcoming civic elections.

Bangalore waste spot
Waste Management

One truck to transport both wet and dry waste: Why this is a problem

April 22, 2022 Pinky Chandran

Collection and transportation must not compromise quality of segregated waste. But BBMP’s new plan will lead to mixed waste moving to landfills

Medha Patkar meeting striking ITI workers
Economy

Opinion: Contract workers in PSUs–marginalised castes, women, main victims of discrimination

March 23, 2022 Malini Ranganathan

Coded discrimination, disproportionately affecting women and people from marginalised castes and classes, is a key feature of the contract labour system.

Sex workers holding a protest banner
Society

Bengaluru’s sex workers: old work spaces are all gone, the city now considers them ‘undesirables’

February 28, 2022 Anant Kamath

An entire ecology around street-based sex work has slowly disintegrated, pushing many of them into further invisibility and vulnerability

Queue for vaccination outside K Narayanapura PHC
Health

A wish list for public healthcare in 2022

December 29, 2021 Adithya Pradyumna

COVID showed just how inadequate public healthcare is in Bengaluru. Here’s a wish list from a public health researcher on what needs to change.

flooded road
Environment

Floods in Bengaluru: Engineered, legally!

December 27, 2021 H S Sudhira

Government agencies have engineered Bengaluru’s natural streams into sewage-carrying drains. This has resulted in frequent floods in the city.

Society

“Youth already in forefront of fight against COVID”

April 22, 2021 Ekta Sawant

To simply ask youth to form small committees and help in COVID administration questions their ability and potential to be catalysts of change and pillars of hope in these difficult times.

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