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HomeGENRE: Voices

GENRE: Voices

Personal essays, commentary, opinion, interviews

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

Commute

Better mobility design can encourage the use of public transport, cycling and walking

February 23, 2022 Dattatreya T Devare

Traffic congestion can be reduced with improved infrastructure for public transport and non-motorised transport, particularly cycling and walking.

Private vehicles stuck in a jam
Commute

Fix public transport to reduce car, bike trips

February 22, 2022 Dattatreya T Devare

The best way to motivate citizens to shun personal, private vehicles is to provide credible and affordable public transport alternatives

Parking woes-Haphazard-parking
Commute

Need parking fees, congestion tax to regulate private vehicles

February 21, 2022 Dattatreya T Devare

What is required is rigorous and effective implementation of a set of measures that includes incentives and disincentives to reduce use of private vehicles

Infrastructure

Beautification in isolation: Questions on the facelift of K-100 Rajakaluve

February 16, 2022 Abhijit Waghre

The beautification project does not follow the Karnataka High Court and NGT orders on the protection of Bangalore’s lakes and major storm water drains

Dr Chandan Banerjee, Associate Director at Water Solutions Lab
Water Supply

Interview: IISc projects that connect Bengaluru’s water problems to solutions

February 15, 2022 Navya P K

“The Water Solutions Lab focuses on both design and policy. Technology has to be coupled with correct policy making to properly utilise the technology.”

Dr J Srinivasan, Distinguished Scientist at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISc
Environment

Bengaluru warming faster than global mean, will become much hotter: Dr J Srinivasan, IISc

February 13, 2022 Navya P K

The State can’t deal with climate change if it ignores local factors like land use change and pollution, says Dr Srinivasan.

Wads of cash 500 & 100 on files
Governance

“The bribe and I”

January 7, 2022 Renuka Viswanathan

Procedural changes or tech fixes alone can’t stop corruption. The administrative structure can be bribe-proofed only when politics is honest too.

Woman holding a mobile
Governance

Mobile phone theft: A personal experience

December 17, 2021 Kameswari Padmanabhan

Even as Bengaluru has been rated as the best city to live in the country, mobile thefts have been on the rise. A resident shares how her phone was stolen.

Fire safety equipment
Civic

Fire safety in apartments: Residents are also accountable under law

November 22, 2021 Sai Apabharana K M

Builders are usually blamed for fires in apartments. But as per rules, it is residents’ responsibility to renew fire NOC, ensure inspections, etc.

Planting Miyawaki forest
Environment

How to build a micro forest in your backyard

November 19, 2021 Varun Ravindra

It’s possible to create micro (miyawaki) forests in small spaces around your house or apartment complex. Here’s a guide.

An ashwath katte or peepul tree shrine
Infrastructure

What Bengaluru’s peepul tree shrines can teach us about urban planning

November 17, 2021 Kiran Keswani

Bengalureans still nurture traditional community spaces like peepul tree shrines. Such spaces should be retained in city planning and design.

a park in bengaluru
Infrastructure

A vocabulary for public infrastructure in Bengaluru

November 8, 2021 Shreya Pillai

Using international vocabulary for city infrastructure will help citizens understand the situation instead of creating a new, confusing language of design

Governance

Workshop on ward committees: Learn how to help solve civic issues in your neighbourhood

October 29, 2021 Srinivas Alavilli

Attend a workshop to learn how you can participate in the ward committee meetings in your ward, hold officials accountable and get works done.

cycle lane on orr
Commute

ORR Cycle Lane: Do cyclists benefit at all?

October 11, 2021 Shilpi Sahu

The cycle lane on ORR would help a large number of commuters, especially blue collar workers. But currently it is broken, encroached and uninviting.

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