Pune Municipal Corporation recently announced a proposal to widen all roads and lanes (and even by lanes) in the city of Pune. The proposal is pretty blanket, wherein all 6m or less wide lanes shall be indiscriminately get widened to 9m. What is part...
03 February, 2021 Transport Urban Planning
सध्या प्रस्तावित पर्यावरण आघात मूल्यांकन कायदा २०२० (EIA Notification 2020) ह्यावर अनेक व्यावसायिक आणि पर्यावरणवाद्यांच्या वर्तुळात चर्च होते आहे. पर्यावरण मंत्रालयाचे माजी मंत्री श्री. जयराम रमेश ह्यांनी सध्याचे मंत्री श्री. प्रकाश जावडेकर...
13 August, 2020 POLITICS & OPINION THE ENVIRONMENT
Today, the media is rife with opinions being expressed on the Draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020. This is also being echoed in the various professional and environmental groups on social media. Very recently, a letter sent ...
13 August, 2020 POLITICS & OPINION THE ENVIRONMENT Uncategorized
A series of Tweets by renowned child psychiatrist Dr Bhooshan Shukla, Pune today (23.04.2020) has prompted me to write the following blog. These are our experiences while raising our children, in a way that is unconventional by today’s standards. We ...
24 April, 2020 MY MUSINGS
The year 2019 draws to a close and 2020 looms ahead. My mentor and guide Dr Prasad Modak (I will call him My Professor) has complied an amazing list of 30 Resolutions for Sustainable Living. I received this list a few days ago through his......
30 December, 2019 Sustainability THE ENVIRONMENT Uncategorized
Every Monsoon some or the other region of India gets flooded. Its an annual recurrence, afflicting some part of our country, either alternately or every year, like in case of Assam. As soon as the flood waters invade our lives, so do messages and art...
07 August, 2019 THE ENVIRONMENT THE URBAN Water
A slum on the hill is the most common occurrence that we will see and experience in any city in a developing country. In India, like the ubiquitous problem of erratic traffic on roads, a slum on the hill is the second most common feature......
30 July, 2019 THE URBAN Urban Planning
काल पुणे ते सासवड हा ज्ञानेश्वर माउली पालखी सोहळ्यातील एक महत्वाचा आणि अवघड टप्पा पूर्ण केला. गेली ४ वर्ष सातत्याने दर वर्षी एक टप्पा, मी व माझी मैत्रीण मृदुला, पूर्ण करत आलो आहोत. आत्ता पर्यंत, पुणे ते सासवड, सासवड ते जेजुरी, जेजुरी ते वाल्हे, वाल्ह...
03 July, 2019 MY MUSINGS
बरोबर सकाळी ८ वाजता पहिले इ.व्ही.एम, आपल्या स्वतःच्या पेटीत बंदिस्त, प्रत्येक टेबल वर पोचले. मतमोजणी केंद्राची एक विशिष्ठ रचना असते. ह्या केंद्रासाठी एक मोठी, फारसे कॉलम नसलेली व प्रशस्त जागा लागते. त्या मुळे, धान्य गोदामे ह्या प्रक्रियेसाठी सज...
25 May, 2019 POLITICS & OPINION