Articles by Arunava Banerjee

The fully functional water treatment system. Pic: Akshatha M Arjun Ravi Kumar, a builder, once visited T-Zed, an apartment-cum-villa community that treats and reuses all its waste water. There he met Srinivasan Sekar, who as part of the Management Committee there, worked on the water system design. He recalls, "Sekhar offered me a glass of tap water saying that it is generated from sewage, initially I was a bit reluctant to drink it but when I did, (I realised) it was as good as any bottled water. " Arjun lives in an apartment that his firm built - Surbacon Maple,…

#ChukkuBukkuBeku campaigners line up to board the Bangarpet passenger train at the Cantonment Railway Station on Saturday. Pic: Sumukh Kadekar Over 300 people assembled at six railway stations between Cantonment station to Whitefield as part of the #ChukuBukkuBeku campaign organised by Citizens for Bengaluru (CfB) on Saturday, (December 17, 2016,) highlighting the need for a suburban railway system in Bangalore to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution. Several campaigners including actor Prakash Belawadi and singer Raghu Dixit who boarded the Bangarpet passenger train (which was delayed by over an hour) at Cantonment station at around 10.30 am were joined by…