Krishna Byre Gowda took charge of Bengaluru promising to tackle its legacy problems. But his remarks to civic workers and vendor evictions have sparked a wider debate over the city’s governance.
Gurugram’s garbage mess was long blamed on MCG vendor Ecogreen. Two years after its exit, there’s still no replacement and old problems have stuck on—‘government has run away’.
Clearing the trash has become an extension of the protest itself. Dozens of students, some in neon jackets, masks and heavy gloves, are sweeping the streets.
In the video, a Canadian woman, Veronica Lace, says, ‘All of you should be ashamed,’ before asking the people, mostly Sikhs and South Asians, to ‘pick up some garbage’.
In the immediate vicinity of Perungudi, the reclamation has already triggered a fresh wave of construction. A row of shopping outlets is coming up on one side.
On the first day, Greater Bengaluru Authority’s ‘garbage dumping festival’ saw waste deliberately dumped in front of 218 households, and Rs 2.8 lakh collected in fines.
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Gurugram isn’t the first city where Lazar Jankovic has launched a cleanliness drive. He has cleaned streets wherever he lived — from Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu, to Rishikesh.
Two Ghazipur-like dumps in Lucknow are now a park and a waste plant. Former municipal commissioner Inderjit Singh drove city’s clean makeover. ‘Lucknow’s entire image has changed.’
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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