Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

The challenges we face are complex. They cannot be solved without hard work, or without the public participation of informed, problem-solving citizens. (RHO) ashwinmahesh.in Bangalore Joined September 2011

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

11 hours ago

BBMP's placemaking project locations in South Bengaluru are in the following wards. If, in each case, local people living in the ward engage to carry out the improvement, we can get this done in a few months. Interested and living nearby one of these? Hemmigepura Bellanduru…

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

5 days ago

As long as each nation acts in its self interest and accepts that others need to do the same, things don't get chaotic. But when a country starts believing that others must not protect their interests, ironically it starts to let down it's interest too. Not A implies Not B.

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

a week ago

Huge traffic jams are common on the Outer Ring Road and on spurs from it like Sarjapur and Whitefield roads. This should tell us that a big chunk of traffic in the city is circumferential, not radial. Metro is mostly radial so far, but ORR lines are coming. We also need some kind…

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

a week ago

India has taken 'driving on the wrong side of the road' to a higher orbit. It's a great metaphor for a lot - a weak state, inadequate good options, people left to their own devices. It happens all the time because that's how most things run.

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

2 weeks ago

Was watching a clip from an old Satyajit Ray movie, where one of the characters in the film says there are three kinds of roads in the city - bad, very bad and very very bad. One could say that about a lot more than roads, and not only about Kolkata. Avoidable suffering is the…

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

2 weeks ago

Veerendra Puppy's arrest should be a reminder of something that is usually not talked about. In our politics, a large number of tickets are given to people simply because they can compete in the money-and-muscle wars and possibly win. But that also means that better known and…

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

2 weeks ago

Lawyer for Madhya Pradesh argues that the Governor should have the power to withhold his assent without saying so when the legislature passes a law! This is the double-engine effect. Only one works, the other is merely being dragged along, even to say and do things that are not…

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

2 weeks ago

The Bill to remove PM, CMs and Ministers from office if they are jailed for more than 30 days doesn't apply to MLAs and MPs.

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

2 weeks ago

Next flyover at Mehkri Circle, I guess.

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

2 weeks ago

The government's position on the powers of the Governors seems to be that in addition to accepting a Bill or sending it back to the legislature or referring it to the President, s/he can also just withhold it. The govt also accepts that this should be done only in the rarest of…

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

2 weeks ago

Supreme Court says it is only considering an advisory role in the Presidential Reference case, and whatever it decides will not overturn the judgment. But it's surely odd for judges to give their opinions on other judges' rulings, even if they are asked. Pandora's Box.

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

3 weeks ago

Hebbal Flyover - three things to keep in mind. (a) Making any turning movement signal-free at one junction will simply shift the congestion forward to the next spot. Unless we make the entire ORR junction-free, we should expect such shifts each time. We saw this when congestion…

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Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh

3 weeks ago

There is no doubt that there are lots of errors in the voter roll. Both NDA and opposition people are saying this. And who is responsible for the integrity of the roll? The Election Commission. If anyone should apologise, it is the commissioners. Can we be certain that they are…