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Pay attention. You’ll soon be zipping through it.
It gets dark and it sounds different when the Bangalore metro passes through a tunnel from the arts college towards the civil court. But before that happens, some worthy souls …
What goes on behind the boards at Minsk Square
It is difficult not to get exasperated while negotiating the bottlenecks that the metro rail project in Bangalore creates every morning. But few, if any, have the time or the …
Hydrogen, oxygen and a world of difference
As a mini-City gets built in front of (and under) the temporary address of those who shamelessly glug water out of bottles when millions of those who elected them go …
When Bangaloreans were sleeping last night…
It looks all neat and clean from the outside when the trains start plying, but plenty goes into getting a City ready for the metro. On Tumkur road in Bangalore …
Namma Metro as a study of the Indian psychology
Be it Delhi then or Bangalore now, there is something about the metro rail that seems to do something to us as a people. There is a sense of pride, …
Pujaris, Pudaris & the People on Namma Metro
Four years, six months and five days after work began on it, the first official train of Namma Metro rolls out, to the coconut shells of the priests, the wave …
After all, a metro station doesn’t open every day
On the night of the morning before Namma Metro rolls out, the M.G. Road station looks all decked up and ready to go as young and old file past to …
Namma Metro as the metaphor of ‘Avara’ Avarice
Illegal mining scams, denotification scams, land grabbing scams, site allotment scams…. For a State that makes much of its nela (land) and jala (water), it is no surprise that all …
Has the BJP lost all sense of shame in Karnataka?
If a photograph is worth a thousand metaphors, this is it. On the face of it, the cranes, the excavators and the barricades show the backbending work on the Bangalore …
Why on earth does Bangalore Metro look so ugly?
It is difficult for anybody who has seen or used the Delhi Metro to not wonder at how uninviting its Bangalore counterpart, or sections of it which are ready, is …
On top down under, a tale of a work in progress
As the Namma Metro project takes shape in front of our eyes, two contrasting images from two contrasting locations in Bangalore. The first, from in front of the pristine Vidhana …
If only someone could do this to save our State
On a day when the disgraceful nataka in Karnataka got even more disgraceful—with god’s own party showing how bereft it is of ethics and values in clinging on to power …