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Bengaluru ranks high on Ease of Living Index

Bengaluru ranks high on Ease of Living Index Updated: Updated: But, governance issues exposed by low Municipal Performance Index Share Article AAA While the criteria in 2018 focused on governance parameters, criteria for 2020 includes several questions on individual choices and priorities by citizens.   | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K But, governance issues exposed by low Municipal Performance Index Bengaluru being adjudged the most liveable large city in the Ease of Living Index (EoLI) 2020, a meteoric improvement from 58th position in 2018, was met with puzzlement by many experts and opposition parties, even as the ruling BJP claimed credit. Several urban experts have questioned the ‘most liveable large city’ tag. “Clearly, such surveys based on non-existent methodologies are driven by deeply political agendas. Anyone living in Bengaluru knows how seriously degraded the city is. With equitable access to basic amenities like water, roads and public transport being i

From Davos to Disha

From Davos to Disha World Economic Forum in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi identified three great threats to civilisation: climate change, terrorism and the backlash against globalization. He also added another one, that “educated, well-to-do youth are being radicalized…” Disha Ravi and her colleagues Nikita Joseph and Shantanu Muluk are climate change activists. They also are “educated”, maybe “well-to-do”, maybe not (but does that matter?). All three, and thousands of young people who are part of Fridays for Future and other such youth movements, strongly believe governments aren’t doing enough to tackle climate change. They even argue that globalisation based on an extractive paradigm of development must end if we are to secure climate stability, and for humanity to survive on this living planet.

How a Climate Change Activist s Arrest for Sedition Is an Escalation of India s Crackdown on Dissent

How a Climate Change Activist s Arrest for Sedition Is an Escalation of India’s Crackdown on Dissent Time 2/16/2021 Amy Gunia © Manjunath Kiran AFP/Getty Images Activists belonging to various human rights organisations hold placards as they stage a demonstration against the arrest of the activist Disha Ravi by Delhi police for her alleged involvement in the instigation of violence during the farmers protest on India s Republic Day, in Bangalore on Feb. 15, 2021. Police in India have accused Disha Ravi, a 22-year-old climate activist with ties to Greta Thunberg, of sedition. Her alleged crime: helping to create and share an online “protest toolkit” that outlined how to support the mass protests by farmers in the country.

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