GENRE: Voices

Waiting in line to perform my mother’s last rites at Sumanahalli Crematorium, the familiar smell in the air took me towards the valley. The Vrishabhavathi river flowed dark and foul next to the crematorium.

This freedom fighter remained a fighter for fundamental freedoms all his life. Just as he opposed the CAA and NRC, he fought encroachment of lakes and discrimination of Dalits and Adivasis.

Tejasvi Surya did not invent bigotry. He merely opened the gates. The root of it isn’t in 2014 or 2002 or even 1992. It is has been passed on from generation to generation.

Bengalureans write to Karnataka Chief Minister, highlighting major issues in COVID management, with suggestions and demand for immediate action.

“We are not activists, we are just common people, asking for our basic right to a clean environment and we refuse to breathe this poison every night.”

This personal appeal beseeches residents of apartment complexes to respect restrictions on the entry of domestic help, cooks, drivers and visitors.

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.

Now more than ever is the time to improve the public consultation process. This is also the first time a suburban railway project is being launched, and it is different from a regular road, flyover or underpass project.

BBMP’s budget ignores truths that were thrown up by last year’s challenges. Sadly, it offers not a glimmer of a brave new world for the city’s residents.

Mapping all the lifeline utilities in Bengaluru is the only way to flawless planning and execution of projects involving road excavation.

Affordable and accessible mobility would enable greater access and connection between people, markets, services, businesses, and consumers, leading to economic revival.

“Go ahead and celebrate March 8 the way you deem fit, but do not forget the work that is to be done”