OPINION

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.