Category: Social Activism

09 Feb 2018
Citizens' Rally for Right2Breathe
Residents of Kudlu, Haralur, Haralukunte, Somasundarapalya, & Parangipalya are getting ready for yet another peaceful protest against the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation’s Kudlu Compost Plant. Last year we saw the #Blood2Breathe protest during which almost a hundred residents donated blood for the cause. Under the leadership of KHHSP Residents’ Welfare Association, this time it is Citizens’...
03 Jul 2017
Donating blood for a cause! This is the second blood donation camp in Somasundarapalya, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, dedicated for a cause. While the first one was for the Right for Road, this one is for the Right To Breathe.  A silent fight against the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) and BBMP for the right to breathe fresh air. The...
17 Mar 2017
KCDC Gathering
We live in HSR Layout, ward 174, Bengaluru, near a compost plant owned by the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation. Near does not mean that close…approximately 1.5 kilometres away from the plant. When we moved to this area in 2009, this compost plant was not operational, to be precise – plant was in an abandoned state....
04 Oct 2016
It is high time authorities take steps to rejuvenate the Thuppanchira pond in Manjapra panchayat, Ernakulam district, Kerala. The last time some work was done for this pond was in 2013-14 under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. If we go through the list of sanctioned jobs, it is evident that most...
08 Nov 2015
———— Mr. S was waiting for someone near a Lake… looking at the already polluted lake. An old dull teal scooter came towards him… slowly… and took a right turn towards the lake.   This is not the person he was waiting for.  But, many things on the scooter caught his attention… more attention than the...
03 Nov 2015
This is kind of Nostalgia note on our journey to waste segregation. Mythri Maiden is a small apartment with 28 housing units. Almost an year ago, we started segregating waste with a simple idea: “being a small community does not mean that we should shrug away from our duties towards our environment.” Being Part of...
30 Apr 2015
These are some of the photographs from Thuppanchira Pond taken between 2011 and 2014. Oh! that white patch that looks like a building is my home.  We need these ponds to preserve the various stages of plant life in the surrounding area… The pond is rich with aquatic life… Early morning… water droplets on grass...
29 Apr 2015
The Pond: Thuppanchira, the name is new to me even though the pond was there, just behind my home, for the last 15 years after we built our house in 1998. The pond was there for more than a 100 years before we moved to this house. The only change that happened to the pond...