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Mahesh Vijapurkar
Mumbai: Get cuss words ready, pothole days are upon us again
Here’s some good news on the civic front for Mumbai residents. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has now announced that it would map all roads with potholes before Ganapati festivities so that the idols can be brought to the pandals and then taken for immersion without hurdles. The not so good #Civic body #Ganapati festival #Mumbai #OnOurMinds
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Nilofer D'Souza
Bangalore’s rain-catcher: A man who never had to pay corporation for water
Heavy rains in the past three days have cooled Bangalore and also helped raise water levels in dams that supply water to the city. But there is one man in the city who is unhappy. "We should learn to keep the rains in our homes," says AR Shivakumar, senior fellow and #AR Shivakumar #Bangalore #Environment #Frontrunner #Monsoon #Rain water harvesting
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Apurva Purohit
Phaneesh Murthy scandal: Have moral values become irrelevant in the work place?
I find people use the power that social media has given them to enthusiastically and very often misguidedly, flog and flail their fellow beings without compunction. Not knowing, nor understanding all sides of the story, they jump into a controversy and gleefully start panning the spotlighted person of the hour #iGate #Moral values #Phaneesh Murthy #ThatsJustWrong
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Gautam Viswanathan
The EPL Team of the Year… with a slight twist
With the Barclays Premier League having ended, most sites out there will have a Team of the Season. I decided to put one out with a slightly different twist — only one player from every team makes the list. Without further ado, here is my Premier League Team of the Season: Goalkeeper: #English Premier League #EPL Team of the Year #football #KickingAround #Robin van Persie #Sports
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Mahesh Vijapurkar
Planning: Why slums can’t be separated from Mumbai
From a scattered, notional presence in Mumbai till the 1950s, slums have become so dominant a feature that they can no longer be ignored when planning for the city. Hitherto, slums were where the 'other' lived, deserving of platitudes, and also of patronage for political purposes. They have been the #India #InMyOpinion #Mumbai slums #Real estate
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Jay Mazoomdaar
The problem with corporate feel good ad campaigns
A few years back, a high-brow green publication brought out by one of India’s oldest and highly-respected conservation bodies ran an unusual advertisement that flaunted the photograph of an open cast mine on its back cover. “If you can’t grow it or hunt it,” it screamed, “you have to mine #Advertising #Conservation #Environment #Ethics #Media #OnOurMind #Tiger
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Sourav Majumdar
GDP, manufacturing PMI at historic lows: Chidu needs to act now
The latest Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) figure, a key indicator of the state of the manufacturing sector, has come in at a 50-month low, falling to just 50.1 in May from 51 the previous month. This is just one more indication of the rot Indian manufacturing finds itself in, with #Chidambaram #Economy #India #manufacturing #RBI #Subbarao #WhyNow
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Rajyasree Sen
DID Supermoms shows you the real Indian bahu
Zee has a new show on air from last night. It’s called Dance India Dance Supermoms (DID Supermoms). And I couldn't be more impressed. Not because I like gyrating women, but because out of all the trash programmes that you see on Indian reality television and entertainment TV which show #Dance India Dance Supermoms #Farah Khan #Indian reality shows #Mithun Chakraborty #TheIdiotBox
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Aakar Patel
Why I should have been a Kapil Dev wallah, not a Gavaskar fan
In my school in Surat, boys were split between the Kapil Dev loyalists (on top after he led India to 1983's World Cup win) and the Gavaskar loyalists. I preferred Gavaskar though I was a bowler. He was a writer and that interested me. He was articulate in print (his dull, #Cricket #IPL spot-fixing #Kapil Dev #Sports #Sunil Gavaskar
