Welcome to the City of Hyderabad! This post is an introduction to the city roads and driving in it. The Municipal Commission of Hyderabad (MCH) has a new motto- Make Commuting Horrible! And so to honour their latest endeavour of digging up all roads – the main ones as well as the smaller by-lanes –ContinueContinue reading “Road woes”
Category Archives: India Development
Electricity woes & Alternatives
Its just March and Vashi ( Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra), where my family lives, already faces upto three hours of power-cuts everyday. My friend who lives in nearby Khargar announced that power-cuts would be further increased to 6 hours, as it currently is in areas such as Dombivili. Folks who have big homes and the budgetsContinueContinue reading “Electricity woes & Alternatives”
Kashmir’s homeless
There is a cold wave sweeping across the north. I watch the temperature dropping every night in Kashmir. Srinagar moved from minus 4.6 degrees to � 5 degrees. How cold would it be in interior remote areas of Jammu. They showed a snapshot of Drass in NDTV. People said the snow comes upto the firstContinueContinue reading “Kashmir’s homeless”
My paper on communications
Discovered a couple of days back that my paper on �Communications for Development: Creating a Communications Strategy�, which was first published in my project Newsletter in the i4d magazine, is going to be republished in the Journal of Rural Development published by National Institute for Rural Development (NIRD). It is available online here. After moreContinueContinue reading “My paper on communications”
Whose responsibility are they?
On the Banjara Hills road which goes towards Hitech City, at Hyderabad, there is entertainment to occupy your attention while the traffic signal turns red. Some street children, some of them remarkably fair and beautiful (which makes Satya think they might be from up north), have taken to performing acrobatics on the street. They parkContinueContinue reading “Whose responsibility are they?”
Speaking Out
A conference I attended earlier this year was filled with people from varied backgrounds, all of whom were present to speak, share, talk and discuss their views and thoughts on gender and the information society. It was the first of the kind seminar that I had attended and was suitably impressed by much of theContinueContinue reading “Speaking Out”
The paradox: Development sector does development?
There. Finally even Satya has accepted that I am an idealist. I expect honesty and integrity and a dash of ethical behaviour in my area of work and workplace. More often than not this is unrealistic in today�s world! Increasingly I am offended and disturbed by what goes on in the name of Social Development.ContinueContinue reading “The paradox: Development sector does development?”
In continuum to the previous post � the serious part of it
The green hay prettily nods her head to get my attention. Like that girl fresh into puberty eager for men to look at her in awe. I am awed, my dear, by your freshness, by how tender you look, how alive and how happy you are by your birth and age. But I cannot helpContinueContinue reading “In continuum to the previous post � the serious part of it”
when wishes are fulfilled
(c) Anita Satyajit 2005 It was culmination of desires accumulated carefully over years. The desire to move beyond what skill I have got slotted into and move into the platform where I get to do something that might add more meaning into people�s lives. Working on the script last week I wrote, �When food isContinueContinue reading “when wishes are fulfilled”
Atha : Returning to the Now 