Written by Brinda Srinivasa
This week, Bengaluru witnessed the launch of a ebook chronicling the town’s love for one in every of its lifelines: the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Company (BMTC) bus.
Bengalurina Bussina Kathegalu (Bengaluru Bus Tales), a group of tales of bus rides within the metropolis, gathered by volunteers of NGO Samvada, was compiled right into a ebook and launched on Monday. “There isn’t a single writer for the ebook; it options contributions of assorted collaborators,” mentioned Prajwal Nagesh, a postdoctoral researcher who labored on the compilation.
The occasion was held in partnership with EquiMob, the Institute for Social and Financial Change, Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike, and Samvada.
“As an alternative of concentrating on the problems confronted by BMTC buses, which individuals are already conscious of, we aimed to focus on the constructive points and present BMTC that many individuals admire utilizing the buses and that they’ll considerably impression lives. That is the rationale we created this ebook,” mentioned Professor Dr Ajay Bailey, head of the division of human geography and spatial studying at Utrecht College, the Netherlands. Funding for the mission was obtained from Utrecht College, and Dr Bailey was the principle collaborator.
The occasion started with volunteer Mamatha Gamana narrating her bus experiences, which led others within the room to recount their very own tales. This was adopted by volunteers studying anecdotes, which that they had collected by means of interviews.
A volunteer shared a narrative a couple of bus passenger who beloved the FM radio on the bus a lot that if a tune was enjoying and didn’t finish earlier than her cease, she would intentionally miss her cease to listen to all the tune.
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“Individuals don’t utilise public transportation, which results in a number of congestion within the metropolis,” Alexander James, an environmentalist and retired lecturer from St Joseph’s College, mentioned. “As an alternative of getting 70 people on the highway of their automobiles, it could be much more environment friendly for all of them to be on a bus. This would cut back highway congestion and reduce air pollution,” he defined.
The e-book will probably be out on Equimob’s web site and Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike’s weblog.
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