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OPINION

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 and Neethi P

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.

Education

Ending the tug-of-war on school fees

March 4, 2021 Abhilash M

The government should set up fee regulatory committees with powers to fix fees based on the school’s expenses and reasonable growth plans, says a parent-turned-founder of a school.

Society

ಪ್ರೀತಿ, ಮದುವೆ, ಕಾನೂನು: ಒಂದು ವಿಶೇಷ ಕಾಯ್ದೆ

January 27, 2021 Maitreyi Krishnan and Clifton D'rozario

ವಿಶೇಷ ವಿವಾಹ ಕಾಯ್ದೆ, 1954, ಅಂತರ್-ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕ, ಅಂತರ್ಜಾತಿ ವಿವಾಹಗಳನ್ನು ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾಗಿ ಎತ್ತಿಹಿಡಿದಿದೆ

Society

Love, marriage, law: A special act

December 17, 2020 Clifton D'rozario and Maitreyi Krishnan

The Special Marriage Act, 1954, expressly upholds inter-religious, inter-caste marriages

Traffic jam
Infrastructure

“Unplanned development failed the ORR. It may fail Peripheral Ring Road too”

September 22, 2020 Manasi Paresh Kumar

The example of Outer Ring Road shows that rapid, unplanned development can defeat the purpose of a ring road. Without land use regulations, the same is likely to happen in the case of the upcoming PRR.

Governance

BBMP Council election: “As history repeats itself, citizens are paying the price”

September 19, 2020 Manasi Paresh Kumar

As the state government appoints an administrator to BBMP and indefinitely delays Council elections, how are citizens affected? History shows that the absence of a Council makes BBMP more unaccountable and inaccessible.

Bangalore COVID Hospital Problems
Governance

“COVID response: Bengaluru is overlooking every management lesson from history”

August 3, 2020 Manasi Paresh Kumar

History shows that Bengaluru has reined in pandemics before. But now, with turf wars and bureaucrat transfers, even basic principles of management are missing from the city’s COVID response.

a domestic help preparing food in the kitchen
Society

Call them back to work; They’re waiting

June 24, 2020 Harsha Raj Gatty and Manasi Paresh Kumar

In earlier articles in the Ground Reality series, we looked at cash shortage, food insecurity and domestic conflict in poor urban households during the lockdown. They are now trying to rebuild their lives. This is about how we can help.

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