Speak louder! The Courts are listening!

Akshara Kumar Chittoor writes in from Bangalore:
One hundred points and a well-deserved pat on the back for the Indian Judiciary. The latest order issued by the Delhi High Court directing the arrest of Delhi Jal Board officials for failing to prevent the flow of sewage into the Yamuna, with the additional imposition of heavy fines, [...]

Appeal: Focus on People not Vehicles!

 
Noted city-based activist and campaigner, Sujit Patwardhan makes an appeal to the readers of the Chronicle:
I am surprised by the recent news in the papers that the subway at Wakdewadi, built many years back as a path for cyclists is being thrown open for four-wheelers (cars). This is located at one of the most congested [...]

Greetings Earth Bags! at Manney’s on the Booksellers’ Diamond Jubilee

From (an extremely crowded) Manney’s Booksellers Shop on Moledina Road: Ecologist, architect and school-teacher Sourabh Phadke has written a bi-lingual booklet called ‘Earth Bags’ in English and ‘Mathi-Pothi‘ in Marathi, which is a manual in self-help consrtuction using ‘flexible form rammed earth.’ The booklet was released by city-based architect Rahul Rawat on the occassion of [...]

Visarjan Aftermath

On the banks of the Mula-Mutha:

Every year, as a part of the Ganapathi Festival Celebrations thousands of idols of the Elephant-headed Lord are immersed into the waters of the Mula-Mutha River. While this tradition was established in 1894 by Lokmanya Tilak to initiate “the collective communal celebration of the festival of Lord Ganesha”, in the [...]