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The crowdsourced traffic light

Vishy KurugantiDecember 09, 20182 mins

I’ve been wanting to write this post since 2009. Really. Exhibit A : Year in Bangalore – the Unwritten Posts. When we moved to Bangalore 10 years ago, good reason prevailed to not get immediately…

The Guide’s trouble with the Censor Board

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 06, 20161 mins

If you thought Bollywood’s troubles with the Censor Board are a recent phenomenon, think again. R.K. Narayan recounts, in The Writerly Life, his experience with the movie making process of The Guide…

Death of a soldier doesn’t sell, period.

Vishy KurugantiJune 06, 20155 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last week we had a kerfuffle in our high school Whatsapp group. The Minority Report voiced the ‘unpopular’ notion that the armed forces are a bunch of attention seeking spoilt brats. I…

Rise of small town India

Vishy KurugantiMay 20, 20144 mins

[Editor’s Note: The piece below was penned by Akshay Garg, former co-founder at Komli Media. It appeared on his Facebook feed and I’m republishing here with his permission. Interesting analogies all…

Gandhi-Nehru to Anna-Kejriwal: an interesting cross-era analogy

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20143 mins

In case you haven’t noticed, the most interesting Indian political discussions are happening on Facebook. Last week, a friend (a keen follower of the ‘India story’ with an appetite for indulging in…

The Merchant of Corrupt Venice

Vishy KurugantiMarch 23, 20132 mins

I think of Portia’s famous speech often – every time a corrupt minister gets implicated in a corruption scam. When Infosys’ Narayana Murthy came up with that ridiculous suggestion that anti-corruption…

Manmohan Singh’s shambolic apology for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20131 mins

In Dec 2012, Firstpost’s Editor-in-chief R. Jagannathan (@thejaggi on Twitter) wrote an incisive piece titled Maya, Modi and the art of the unapologetic apology. It caught my attention this morning…

On a nation with drastically low expectations

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 12, 20131 mins

Three tweets from @albatrossinfo (RT’d by CentreRight India’s Prasanna Viswanathan) caught my attention this evening. 1) As a nation we are a race of people with such low expectations from the ruling…

Ejipura evictions and Karnataka State Human Rights Commission

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 05, 20132 mins

If you have read about last month’s evictions (and demolition) of a slum in the Ejipura/Koramangala neighborhood of Bangalore.. and want to do something about it, here’s a sample of the letter you can…

Bangalore BESCOM’s MD sets the bar for (gasp) efficient babudom

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 01, 20131 mins

While the UPA-II government has been working tirelessly to muzzle social media at every opportunity they get (and creating some along the way), some bureaucrats are using social media the way it’s…

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