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The Towns Mirror Special: The life of a traffic warden
The Towns Mirror Special: The life of a traffic warden
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Jul 30, 2021, 06:00 IST
By Tanushree Sen
Thomas, a resident of
Cooke Town, has been quietly manning the busy junction of Commercial Street for the last 19 years, as a voluntary task
Even before he officially joined the
Bangalore City Police Traffic Warden Organisation (
BCPTWO),
Jacob Thomas would often stand at busy intersections and help control and regulate the traffic. For the past 19 years, the soft-spoken resident of Cooke Town mans the busy intersection of Commercial Street on weekends, saying it’s his way of giving back to society.
The Towns Mirror Special: Fast and Furry-ous
The Towns Mirror Special: Fast and Furry-ous
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Jul 23, 2021, 06:00 IST
By Tanushree Sen
NIMHANS, to retire and look after more than 100 strays in her neighbourhood
There are animal lovers, and those who are passionate about them. One rare category of people includes those who have made their life’s mission to provide service to four-legged beings. One such septuagenarian, D Siddagangamma, a resident of
HRBR Layout, is godmother to over 100 strays in her neighbourhood, cooking for them, feeding them, tending to their injuries, and even giving them a proper burial after death. Oh, and she also houses six dogs rescued from the streets.
The covid mindfield
By Tanushree Sen
With some therapists handling up to 50 calls a day and heading into a burnout, 2021 turned out to be the year counsellors needed counselling
Covid brought health into focus. Not just physical health, but mental health too. And if we’ve managed to be on an even keel, it’s thanks to the many, many mental health professionals who have held our hands and our heads.
Roseline Gomes, a professor of psychology at
Jyoti Nivas College, is a counsellor, educator, and freelance mental health consultant as well. In her 10 years of practice, Gomes saw her client list double during the pandemic. Earlier, she would speak to seven to nine clients for roughly four to six hours a day, but in the last year, that has increased to 14 hours (15 to 18 calls) a day. This naturally took its toll on Gomes and she has now stopped taking extreme cases and is only counselling college students. “In the washroom, I would sometimes sit, blank, listening to the sound
The Towns Mirror Special: A new lease of life, courtesy a community
The Towns Mirror Special: A new lease of life, courtesy a community
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Jul 16, 2021, 06:00 IST
Members from the
east Bengaluru community and several from foreign countries joined forces to fundraise for a woman’s medical expenses
For Sarita, a single mother with a five-year-old son, life has not been easy. Abandoned by her husband when she was pregnant,
Sarita was fending for herself until she suffered a series of nasty falls. To add insult to injury, she lost her job in the middle of the pandemic. But guardian angels from east Bengaluru and from around the globe came to her rescue and raised more than Rs 1.5 lakhs for her medical expenses.