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Learn more about Bangalore’s current social, political, administrative, environmental, cultural and sustainability issues through my rants on such affairs. But, it’s not just about the issues, it’s also about the beauty of living here, its people and the nice things that happen around.

My Five-Point Something if I were Bengaluru’s Mayor

(This was originally written as an entry for a contest conducted by Citizen Matters Bengaluru – a website run by …

Dear Bengaluru, stop complaining, start acting.

Bengaluru is dying as much because of you and not just because of a failed administration. Save your city from flooding. Wake up!

A walk through Old Bengaluru

We walked close to ten kilometres today, through a variety of localities, from the crowded Chickpete to the well planned Basavanagudi. I realized how I missed those walks. I realized the need to get back to photography, to fill these blogs with frames that capture the essence of this city, it’s energy and colours.

HindiBeda – It’s not that we hate Hindi, we just don’t need it here in Bengaluru.

The removal of Hindi from signages symbolizes something more than what it seems. It marks the demand for true equality and justice for all languages of India.

Namma Metro – How I’ve grown with Bengaluru’s metro story.

I can now go on weekend walks to Lalbagh or Cubbon Park. Vidyarthi Bhavan’s Dose is not unreachable anymore! You want me to come to M.G.Road? Done!

Bye bye Aero India. Dear Bengaluru, you’ll never get your due because your own people don’t like you!

So our CM is not interested in Bengaluru’s trees or its lakes, or its architecture, its history, its culture.

Bengaluru Mass-Molestation – A post-mortem analysis – Part I

A number of questions are being asked and statements are being made by different people as a post-mortem of the incident is being carried out. But, how valid are those questions? Are we being reasonable when we ask a few things..? Have we asked all the right questions? Where are we as a society?