An interaction with City Special Commissioner of Traffic, M A Saleem Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Bengaluru city has been trapped for years in a twister of traffic woes. With the roads packed far beyond their capacity by an unrelenting onslaught of ever-increasing numbers of vehicles, smart traffic management has become extremely critical to maintain a semblance of order. It is in this context, the new Special Commissioner of Traffic, M A Saleem, with years of prior experience in the...

Why public access to green spaces should be all day long. Hello and welcome to DH Radio. For years, BBMP parks in the city were shut for the public during the afternoon hours. The Palike Commissioner has now made an announcement extending the open-park hours, although the green spaces will remain shut in the name of maintenance for a few hours. In this episode, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to Usha Rao, an anthropologist and a seasoned campaigner for open spaces. She speaks passionately...

A former DGP dives deep into the killer's psyche. Hello and welcome to DH Radio. The Shraddha Walkar murder case, where the victim's body was chopped into 35 pieces, stored in a refrigerator and later disposed off across Delhi by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawallah, has shocked the entire nation. What drives people to commit such gruesome, horrific crimes? HOw does the forensic department piece together the evidence? In this episode, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to former Karnataka...

Once active users explain why popularity of the next-big-thing in social media dwindled. Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Clubhouse, the audio-only social media platform was quite a sensation when it launched its Android version in India during the lockdown. Opening hundreds of rooms, users got hooked on to the app, talking in real time for hours. But a few months later, the platform which showed so much promise has seen user numbers sharply dwindle. So what went wrong? In this episode, DH...

A talk with a seasoned campaigner for a robust public transport in Bengaluru. Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Why can't BMTC, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation, operate smaller shuttle buses in areas with narrow roads, and thereby boost last-mile connectivity across Bengaluru? Now this might sound simple and easily doable. But, as Shaheen Shasa, a seasoned campaigner for a robust public transport system and member, Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike notes in this episode with...

DH Sports Correspondents in post-mortem mode, but sheds light on way forward Hello and welcome to DH Radio. India crashed out of the T20 Cricket World Cup after a humiliating loss to England in the semi-finals. So what lessons have we learnt? What next? Build a completely new team packed with T20 specialists? But will following that English model benefit India? In this episode, we have a free-wheeling discussion on all these with Deccan Herald Sports Correspondents Sandeep Menon, Sidney...

An interaction with influencers V Shakti and Karthik Srinivasan Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Who will pay $8 every month to get a Twitter Blue Tick or even keep an already existing one? In India, you can get an entire Netflix monthly subscription across multiple devices for that amount! But will people who consider the Blue Tick as a status symbol pay? Or will it encourage trolls with deep pockets? To discuss this and the confusion unfolding within the platform, DH Radio's Rasheed...

A talk on the critical link from Baiyappanahalli to the IT hub Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Almost two years have passed since the last deadline for the 15-km Namma Metro Baiyappanahalli - Whitfield extension expired in December 2020. Trial runs have now begun on the 3.5km stretch from Whitefield to Pattandur Agrahara. While Whitefield residents are happy that at one one part will be ready soon, the entire stretch is unlikely to be opened before the second half of next year. In this...

DH Sports Correspondents discuss the prospects of all four teams and more Hello and welcome to DH Radio. As the T20 Cricket World Cup enters the semi-final stage, the cricketing world has tongues wagging about the prospects of India, England, Pakistan and New Zealand. In this episode, Deccan Herald's sports correspondents Sandeep Menon, Sidney Kiran and Roshan Thyagarajan discuss each of these semi-finalists in great detail, and also the perennial chokers who could not make it. South...

Activists recall the Flyover-Beda movement & why the project makes no sense now. Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Six years after the then Congress Government in Karnataka dropped the steel flyover project between Bengaluru's Chalukya Circle and Hebbal after widespread public protests, the controversial project is back again. The BBMP has now proposed to conduct a feasibility study to build the flyover. The ruling BJP, then in the Opposition, had strongly objected to the project. In...

DH Sports Correspondents deep-dives into all things big and small at the World Cup Hello and welcome to DH Radio. The ongoing T20 Cricket World Cup has sprung quite a few surprises with little known teams like Namibia shocking established cup winners of the past. In this episode, Deccan Herald's sports correspondents Sandeep Menon, Sidney Kiran and Roshan Thyagarajan talk about not just these surprises but also India's fielding worries and more. Listen in...

A deep-dive into the electoral dynamics of a State heading for the polling booth Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Himachal Pradesh is going to the polls on November 12. The State Assembly elections have generated a lot of heat with the BJP keen to retain its hold, and the Congress looking for a comeback. On the margins is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In this episode, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to senior journalist Gautam Dheer to get a ringside view of the electoral dynamics in the State...

An interaction with AAP's Prithvi Reddy and BNP's Srikant Narasimhan Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Elections to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council have been delayed for close to three years now. How has this impacted Bengalureans, their access to utilities and governance of the city in general? In this first part of a series on BBMP Polls, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to two new entrants in the political fray - the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) represented by its State...

DH sports correspondents discuss India's prospects and much more. Hello and welcome to DH Radio. The ongoing T20 Cricket World Cup is gathering a lot of steam, especially after that scintillating Indian victory over Pakistan. Diving deeper into India's prospects and teams beyond these two rivals, Deccan Herald's sports correspondents Sandeep Menon and Roshan Thyagarajan give us a ringside view of the excitement in store. Listen in...

A driver, commuter and a mobility expert explain Hello and welcome to DH Radio. Banned by the Karnataka government for high surge-pricing, auto aggregators Uber, Ola and Rapido managed to obtain a stay from the High Court. For commuters, these autorickshaws had offered an alternative to the high rates charged by the unattached autorickshaws. But why don't the auto meters work anymore? In this episode, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to urban mobility expert Ashwin Mahesh, commuter and...

Making sense of the Bengaluru Metropolitan Land Transport Authority Hello and welcome back to another episode of Monday Mobility. After much delay, the Karnataka government finally tabled the BMLTA Bill in the State Assembly three weeks ago. This umbrella body will coordinate with multiple agencies on issues related to traffic and mobility and help make sense of the city's humongous vehicular population, its massive road density and ways to streamline it. But BMLTA can do much more. To...

DH film writers Vivek Mysore and R Krishna Kumar in conversation Hello and Welcome back to DH Radio's Movie Talk series. In this episode, DH film writers Vivek Mysore and R Krishna Kumar talk about the Hindi remake of Vikram Vedha and compare it with the original released in Tamil, in 2017. Listen in...

An interaction with former IMD Director General KJ Ramesh Hello and Welcome to DH Radio. Accurate rainfall prediction could have minimised the urban flooding mess that Bengalureans endured recently. Despite an app developed specifically for this purpose, it was not even downloaded and used for a coordinated response. To get more insights into this missed opportunity, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to the former Director General of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Dr K J...

A lake expert suggests solutions, both short term and long term Hello and Welcome back to DH Radio. Continuing from the previous episode where we discussed why despite record rains, Bengaluru's lakes have not been filled, we take a look at the solutions, both short and long term. Traditionally, the city's connected lake system had prevented big floods such as the one we witnessed recently. There was a systemic, built-in mechanism in place. DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan anchors a solution-based...

An interaction with Friends of Lakes founder V Ramprasad Hello and Welcome back to DH Radio. Record rains that lashed Bengaluru and flooded its roads recently, should have been good news for the city's lakes. But it did not. Since most of these water bodies haven't been de-silted for decades, most of the flood waters simply got washed away beyond the city limits to the neighbouring State. To understand what really happened, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks of V Ramprasad, CoFounder,...

Bengaluru's Bicycle Mayor and entire cycling community are outraged Hello and Welcome back to DH Radio. It took years of active campaigning for the government to agree to set up a 17-km popup cycling lane in Bengaluru's Outer Ring Road (ORR). But now, after the floods, the bollards that separated the lanes from the main motorway have been removed. What does this mean to the city's cycling community, struggling to build a basic infrastructure, step-by-step? In this episode, DH Radio's...

THIRTY METER TELESCOPE (TMT): Developing its software with a ThoughtWorks Indian connection A deeper look at the world's largest telescope in the making. Hello and Welcome back to DH Radio. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), once commissioned, will be three times bigger than the existing one, and is designed to unravel many more secrets of the universe, including possible life in distant planets and galaxies. The data collected from the TMT is bound to be in zillions of gigabytes and...

An interaction with Sathya Sankaran, Sanjeev Dyamannaver and Rajkumar Dugar Hello, and Welcome to DH Radio. We are starting a new series, Monday Mobility, from this week. In this first episode of Monday Mobility, DH Radio goes back to the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Network, and takes a look at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new deadline of 40 months to complete the project. DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to seasoned mobility activists Sathya Sankaran, Sanjeev Dyamannavar and Rajkumar Dugar...

BRAHMASTRA PART-1: A Breakdown Audio A deep-dive into what went wrong with the film, and how the sequel can fill those gaps Hello, and Welcome back to another edition of DH Radio's Filmy Friday series. In this episode, we have DH Radio's Akash Hegde dive deep into the latest Hindi fantasy action adventure film Brahmastra Part-One-Shiva, and do a Breakdown Audio. The film has had polarising reactions, triggering big debates for and against it in social media. Everybody seems to have an...

Deepthi Navaratna dives deep into her just released book on Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar Hello and Welcome to DH Radio. In this episode, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan talks to Deepthi Navarathna, who has just released her book 'The Maverick Maharajah: Life and Times of Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar.' It is about the fascinating journey of a historical, iconic figure with deep connections to both Mysuru and Bengaluru. Listen in...