Notes to Ourselves blog

It’s around 8pm on a cool November evening on a quiet Jayanagar street in Bengaluru. People are winding their way home to settle down for the night and shopkeepers are eyeing their last customers of the day pack their purchases into cloth bags they’d brought with them.It’s a pleasant surprise to hear the sound of…

In the darkened drawing room of an elegant heritage home within a stone’s throw of the Central Business District of Bengaluru, time stood still on a balmy October evening. The curtains were drawn, the lights dimmed and all eyes were on the wall where a video rolled back the years. In selfie videos edited skillfully…

Bengaluru generates humongous tonnes of garbage every day. The city’s civic body may give you an official figure but the actual figure could be higher, as it usually is with government data. A lot of it ends up on pavements and street corners and some piles up on overflowing vans parked by the roads. Much…