Society

These young people are caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and lack access to education. NGO initiatives have brought some hope.

Interview: Conservation biologist Dr Abi T Vanak weighs in on how Bengaluru can deal with the issue of stray dogs, monkeys and other wildlife in the city.

The name of a place often triggers memories about the area, its people and its history. Here’s a better way to choose ward names for Bengaluru.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.