It's becoming difficult or expensive (because of high electricity bills due to running ACs) to work from home in #Bangalore because of the intense heat, and I hear that the local govt. wants to mandate work from home because of the water shortage. We are going to stuck in a catch-22 situation.
The Global Liveability Index 2023, from Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU), is available now. It ranks the cities that have the best and worst living conditions and quality of life around the world. EIU’s liveability index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The index measures cities on five broad indicators — stability, culture and environment, healthcare, education and infrastructure. The highest score a city can get is 100.
Bengaluru (Bangalore) secured 148th spot with a score of 58.7. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmadabad have slightly better scores.
I believe Bengaluru (Bangalore) has the competence and the bandwidth to rank much better. All that is required in political will. If somebody has lived in Bengaluru even for few weeks, the first obvious expectation for improvement will be better traffic management, roads, public transport and cleaner city with less pollution. Bengaluru has the highest traffic density of any major Indian city, with close to 12.5 million vehicles for a population of 11 million. This clearly shows that there is lot of scope to improve the efficiency of public transport system which will deter people from using personal vehicles.
Hello Bangalore! I’m passing through Bengaluru and would love to meet new friends between Jan 2-8.
I live in Berkeley, California, and run the monthly Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour.
I’d love to connect with people around public history, digital humanities, open source, tech and activism, transit/urbanism, left/progressive politics, books or bookselling.
The Global Liveability Index 2023, from Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU), is available now. It ranks the cities that have the best and worst living conditions and quality of life around the world. EIU’s liveability index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The index measures cities on five broad indicators — stability, culture and environment, healthcare, education and infrastructure. The highest score a city can get is 100.
Bengaluru (Bangalore) secured 148th spot with a score of 58.7. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmadabad have slightly better scores.
I believe Bengaluru (Bangalore) has the competence and the bandwidth to rank much better. All that is required in political will. If somebody has lived in Bengaluru even for few weeks, the first obvious expectation for improvement will be better traffic management, roads, public transport and cleaner city.
Two news stories in Deccan Herald on the same day show why #Bangalore is doomed due to horrible #corruption & #apathy from its politicians & councilors 😭:
i really love #Mastodon. the community here is so much nicer, there are no ads, nobody trying to manipulate me, and no "trends" that i don't want to see.
but there are, like, seven people from #India on this whole entire network, out of which there are probably only two who live in #Bangalore.
i lost a whole community of developers, writers, artists, journalists, and other creative folk from India when #Twitter died. that community hasn't managed to come together again in the same way.
i hope the melon man bankrupts Twitter as quickly as possible so that people can either finally leave, or Microsoft can buy it up and make it boring again.
Bengaluru police arrest two trans women under controversial Anti-beggary Act
These arrests are emblematic of a larger issue: the arbitrary enforcement of a law that was ostensibly designed to address begging but has instead become a tool to penalise individuals facing socio-economic hardships.
In #Bangalore setzen wir Impulse für die Kooperation und zeigen in schwierigen Zeiten eine Perspektive für digitale Innovationen. 🇮🇳 Beim #G20-Digitalminister-Gipfel wurde sehr deutlich, dass der Globale Süden zukünftig eine wichtigere Rolle spielen will und wird. 🌍🚀
IISc Bangalore: Bid to block Teesta Setalvad’s speech on harmony
Security personnel at the institute’s gates initially denied Setalvad entry until faculty members insisted that she should be allowed in, says a faculty member.
‘Defund the Spread of Misinformation and Hate Speech’: IIM-B Faculty Members To India Inc
In a letter, nearly 20 current and former faculty members said they wanted to draw Corporate India's attention to the "fragile state of internal security with an increasing risk of violent conflicts in the country".
This year has been a reminder to tend to the little spaces on the internet I call my own with more care, starting with https://indiastreetlettering.com/.
I set up this website years ago to collect photographs I take of street lettering around the country, but I’ve been terrible at keeping it up-to-date. That changes now. And if I can keep myself motivated, I’ll share a picture from it here every week 🤞🏼
I am always drawn to signs that turn up on homes, like this one warning visitors and burglars of the resident canine. The illustration of the agitated dog and the flamboyant “W” are such nice touches.
Hidden in an alley off MG Road is this beautiful sign. It has sent me down a rabbit hole trying to learn more about Yusuf Sait, who was I believe was the royal tailor to the erstwhile Maharaja of Mysuru.
This mural celebrating Rabindranath Tagore on the wall of the Bengalee Association’s building in Bangalore is a treat, especially for its cursive Bangla letterforms.