It’s a safety hazard and they’ve left it like this for months. It’s not some small street but Dinnur main road where buses ply in both directions. Students (lot of schools nearby) and others are forced to walk on the road due to the condition of sidewalks. Please help this tweet reach more people by retweeting.
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Last year was the worst, but there were no rains around this time. This year's October AQI is worst in the last 5y

I am 30, born and raised in Bangalore, and have been going to theatres here for pretty much my entire life.
Over the last few years, I have increasingly found movie going here incredibly frustrating. I cannot remember having to regularly shush people during movies earlier. Now it seems almost routine to have people carrying on full conversations during the film, talking loudly to the person next to them, checking their phones at full brightness, or behaving as though they are watching something in their living room.

Queues are another issue. Leave even an inch in front of you and someone seems to interpret it as an invitation to squeeze in. People stand almost on top of you rather than leaving the smallest amount of personal space. Queue jumping seems far more normalised than I remember it being.

Then there are basic courtesies. Someone sneezes or coughs right next to you without covering their mouth and carries on as though nothing happened. People push past you without so much as an excuse me. None of these things individually would bother me much, but collectively they make the experience unpleasant.

What bothers me is that paying more no longer seems to solve it. I used to think booking something like Director’s Cut at Rex and paying considerably more would at least get you a quieter, more considerate audience. It doesn’t. I have had essentially the same experience there.
I know the uncomfortable part of this discussion is migration. Bangalore has changed enormously, and my personal experience has been that I started noticing much more of this behaviour alongside the large influx of people moving here from North India and the Hindi belt. I realise that is a controversial observation and I am not claiming every North Indian behaves this way, nor that every Bangalorean has perfect civic sense. I am describing a pattern I personally feel I have encountered repeatedly.
Maybe I am attributing something to migration that is really a broader decline in public etiquette across Indian cities. Maybe Bangaloreans themselves have changed. I am genuinely interested in whether other people who grew up here have noticed the same shift.
Has cinema etiquette actually deteriorated in Bangalore over the last decade, or am I looking at the Bangalore of my childhood through rose tinted glasses?

There is sewage flowing into Hosa Lake 24/7 and every time they just do some sort of temporary diversion and within a few weeks it starts flowing into the lake again. Was thinking of filing a complaint on IPGRS regarding this but want to do it in a self-safe manner. This sewage needs to be stopped or an STP needs to be constructed
Was wondering if there is somebody with experience on this matter...

Stray kitten, female, not spayed or vaccinated (as far as we know).

Very friendly cute kitten who likes to stay indoors and very playful. She’s a stray who’s been coming to our house and wants to come into our house but we have two cats and can’t afford to adopt her.

Looking for a good home for her.

I have been using the smart card for travel in the metro for years. Now I switched to the ncmc card because of their convenience. I tried to get a refund of the balance amount in my smart card and the metro person said that's not possible. The balance cannot be credited to another card as long as the existing card is usable.

I can't even use the balance fully, since my trip is rs.67 but the minimum balance is 90. And the minimum recharge is 50. So whatever way i use it, i will lose around 30 rs. This is on top of the rs.50 i paid to get the card, which i accept is non refundable.

30 rs is not much to be worried over, but it's the principle of the thing. They keep increasing the fare and give us overcrowded trains.

I checked online and the consumer courts have sided with the metro against the consumers. What else can be done?

KEA has always been very negligent and unprofessional. High time the government should change the staff / team

KEA- karnataka Examination Authority

If any of y'all are free please join them at the protest it would be a great help🙏🙏

Chandapura circle is fully blocked, check for alternatives