What do you do when buffaloes mysteriously eat away your green cover? Hunt down the real thick-skinned culprits that wallow in public funds! . . . → Read More: City Zen – Phantom trees and hungry buffaloes
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Some old-timers fondly recall that much-reviled historic event, the Emergency, for a dictatorial government’s efficacy at enforcing law and order. “Trains ran on time, even criminals were shot at sight,” they reminisce with wistful pride. Sure, but why does a democratic society need a schoolmaster to rap its errant knuckles? . . . → Read More: City Zen – For a safer city, withdraw VIP security cover Ask your councillors where the parks have gone, and they will point proudly to a software park within ten minutes’ drive. Car parks, they promise, will follow. But a park by any other name doesn’t feel as green. . . . → Read More: City Zen – A park by any other name As man and best friend clash, no one is sure who’s the underdog. Dog-haters growl genocide, arguing that there are too many mutts for comfort. On the other hand, the overzealous Assisi-tants of St Francis whimper that every dog needs a home, never mind that some of us can’t afford the nutritional equivalent of a pack of bow-wow chow. Wait, aren’t we wagging the dog here? . . . → Read More: City Zen – For the love of dog! Excerpt from the second of my cartoon strip/ columns for @iJanaagraha, a Bangalore civic awareness website, on the challenges of being a morning walker in the age of footpath invasion: For the better part of two decades my dad has been a compulsive morning walker. Before he retired, he’d hit the road at 5:45. To maintain that daily routine in our city’s too-good-to-leave-bed climes, you must be driven by desperation or determination. Maybe both. My dad had a better reason: it was the only time he had the footpath to himself. . . . → Read More: The morning walker’s nightmare |
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