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Articles exploring social trends and activities in Bengaluru, art and culture as well as issues of rights and equality cutting across economic and community groups in the city.

Migrant pregnant workers Nasreen and Nisara
Society

Costly private health care more a necessity than a choice for poor, pregnant migrant women

March 21, 2022 Nihira

A recent study revealed that 64% of surveyed pregnant migrant women had not been visited by a health worker either during their pregnancy or after delivery

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

Everyday-Stories
Society

Be a Citizen Scientist: Contribute to ‘Decoding Everyday’

February 25, 2022 Kiran Keswani

City planning and design can be improved through a collaborative approach by crowdsourcing citizens perspectives and engaging them.

Commuters waiting at a bus stop on the bus priority lane (BPL) along Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru
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How Bengaluru got its first ‘bus priority lane’

August 4, 2021 Navya P K

The bus lane on Outer Ring Road is a result of the citizen activism that started in 2017 with the ‘steel flyover beda’ protests. And citizens’ work continues.

Society

Post-pandemic labour market: Fewer women getting work

June 28, 2021 Pragathi Ravi

While the ripples created by the global health crisis have been felt across the country’s labour force, female workers have disproportionally hurt by it.

Society

A century in pursuit of freedom

May 30, 2021 Leo Saldanha

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.

Society

“Bigotry feeds on our anti-Muslim bias”

May 10, 2021 Padmalatha Ravi

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.

Society

“BSY must act against communalisation of COVID” demand Bengaluru activists

May 7, 2021 News Desk

Condemning the attempt to communalise relief effort and demoralise frontline workers, activists demand inquiry and compensation.

Society

COVID Advisory: Ensuring children are cared for, in our absence

May 6, 2021 Zibi Jamal

Even though it is hard to think of one’s own mortality, times are such that it is better to leave one’s child/children prepared for such an emergency.

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.

Society

Impact of social segregation on employment opportunities

April 12, 2021 Pragathi Ravi

How caste-based spatial segregation in Bengaluru contributes to economic marginalisation.

Society

“Real life awaits post-March 8, every year”

March 31, 2021 Roohi Dixit

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

Society

What Women’s Day means for Bengaluru’s women labourers

March 30, 2021 Juhi Jotwani

The lack of recognition for women’s work and their status as workers is probably why International Women’s Day has been reduced to free drinks and supermarket discounts.

Society

Adapting to survive: Stories of repair economy workers

March 29, 2021 Purna Sarkar and Himadri Das

Whereas the formal economy could move to the WFH model, informal workers devised common sense strategies to keep their business alive post-lockdown.

A campaign urging people to wear masks
Society

It isn’t over: Bengaluru’s fight and the pandemic

March 24, 2021 Harini Raghavan

While cases are rising and vaccines are being administered, here’s how active citizens, RWAs and establishments in Bengaluru are making a difference in keeping the virus at bay.

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