COVER STORY Citizen Matters, Mumbai

Moving homes is cumbersome. Here’s how you can make it broker-free

January 19, 2021 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Are you wishing that you can escape paying rental brokerage charges in Mumbai? This may help you do it.

Concerned citizens work alongside the municipality. Story of ALMs in Mumbai

January 18, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

Advanced Locality Management (ALM) is a voluntary body of concerned citizens to take meaningful civic action in the city.

Relieving pandemic-related stress through art

January 16, 2021 Anthea Lobo and Manasi Mehan

In current COVID-19 times, learning for children would need to include outcomes that can help them become more aware, manage their emotions better, become more resilient and adaptive as well as develop a stronger sense of empathy.

The cost of the delay in Mumbai Metro Project

January 14, 2021 Shrirang Samant

Metro Line 3 is reduces the burden on Mumbai’s local train service and creates better public transport in the city. Its delay is unpardonable.

Photo essay: Flamingo city in Navi Mumbai

January 12, 2021 Malcolm Stephens

This is the best time of the year to catch the flamingos and other winter migrants in Mumbai.

Vaccines are almost here. Time for a large-scale testing system, says a Mumbai team

January 11, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

About five years ago, Manoj Gopalkrishnan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, heard about the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus or MERS-COV outbreak.

Mumbaikars were promised houses, but were they delivered?

January 8, 2021 Avinay Umesh-Sanyogita

Who will hold our elected representatives to account? Promises made by them are no where close to what they deliver.

As vaccines are being approved, time to remember stories of those who helped us through 2020

January 5, 2021 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

As talks of vaccines acquire a shrill pitch, we speak to mortuary workers at one of the biggest public hospitals in the city. And how they saw us through the hard days in the past few months.

Simple answers to Mumbai’s complicated water scarcity issues

January 4, 2021 Hepzi Anthony

Mumbai can tap into its groundwater, and employ better water management techniques. The city need not spend millions on desalination.

In the post-pandemic world, supporting one person at a time

January 2, 2021 Malathi Rai

How small gestures can mean a whole lot and help people stand on their own feet.

Using a FASTag to enter into Mumbai? Not so fast

December 30, 2020 Hepzi Anthony

Once the Dahisar toll naaka starts FASTag from January 1, the city would go completely cashless in toll collection. Will that ease traffic congestion?

Photo essay: Christmas in the COVID19 era

December 29, 2020 Krystel Fernandes

Christmas celebrations were different this year, but special nonetheless.

COVID19 broke the backs of Mumbai’s informal sector workers. What does 2021 hold in store?

December 28, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

If the markets stabilise and the economy grows, we would need to understand if the benefit will extend to the labourers, says a city-based NGO which researched on Mumbai’s informal sector.

Mumbai will focus more on transportation in 2021. It should

December 26, 2020 Dhawal Ashar

Streets are as much about moving people, not just cars. This paradigm shift is what is required to resolve our urban commute crisis

How powerful are Mumbaikars? Turns out, not that much

December 24, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

There is no decentralised urban governance in India, but a new index conceived by a city-based NGO, can help unpack why.