When getting to the other side is a combat sport, pedestrians become foot-soldiers fighting for their lives
Mansplaining – Why did the pedestrian cross the road?
City Zen – Walk of Life The city is a morning walker’s nightmare. For the better part of two decades my dad has been a… View Post
City Zen – Walk of Life The city is a morning walker’s nightmare. For the better part of two decades my dad has been a… View Post
City Zen – A park by any other name Ask your councillors where the parks have gone, and they will point proudly to a software park… View Post
City Zen – A park by any other name Ask your councillors where the parks have gone, and they will point proudly to a software park… View Post
City Zen – For a safer city, withdraw VIP security cover It takes 36 NSG commandos to protect a VIP with Z+ security cover. If our cities were safe, we… View Post
City Zen – For a safer city, withdraw VIP security cover It takes 36 NSG commandos to protect a VIP with Z+ security cover. If our cities were safe, we… View Post
City Zen – For a safer city, withdraw VIP security cover
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?
City Zen – A park by any other name
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.
City Zen – Walk of Life
This is Animal Planet of a different kind. Amber traffic lights blink undecidedly as cabs race each other, ferrying early birds to work. Walkers, joggers and cyclists are under constant threat from vehicular predators. Their habitat, the fragmented footpath, has been driven (literally) to extinction. In farther reaches of the galaxy (such as Bellandur), footpaths have not even troubled the imagination of the authorities.