Blogs By Our Fellows

Climate efforts don’t lack vision or direction. But in between the budgets and broken pavements, execution slips. In Bengaluru, as in many other cities in India, water scarcity, rising heat, and recurring floods are not just outcomes of weather, but of planning choices. These repercussions don’t impact everyone equally. For some, the delays are an […]

Bengaluru’s climate realities are no longer future tense. They show up in shrinking green cover, overheated summers, erratic water access, and floods that overwhelm drains and livelihoods alike. These impacts are not evenly distributed, but neither are the tools to respond. Even as the city acknowledges this, another quiet hurdle persists, with a structural question […]

The signs of Bengaluru’s changing climate are no longer subtle. Milder mornings have given way to harsh heat, cool breezes are rare, and urban discomfort has become unmistakable. But beyond rising temperatures and water scarcity lies a deeper question: who is being hit the hardest, and why? I start most mornings with a walk to […]

Why do we still see open garbage dumps in our neighbourhoods? Why are drains overflowing right next to newly built housing projects? Why do cities continue to struggle with managing solid, wet, grey, and black water waste, creating multiple layers of cascading problems, including environmental and health? Because cities are still being planned in silos, […]

As I deepen my understanding of spatial data and how it can illuminate service gaps, I’ve also strengthened my belief that data alone doesn’t build better cities. It needs something more, something human. Planning becomes truly powerful when we ask, Whose voices are missing from this map? My curiosity and work of interest including being […]

“We were given a toilet under the scheme, but the pit is broken, so we don’t use it.”  These were the words of a woman I met in rural and peri-urban neighbourhoods transitioning into urban spaces in a tier-2 city. For her, that broken toilet is the problem, one that affects her daily, privately, and […]