SILENCE, COURT IN SESSION

The streets of Delhi are fraught with traffic violations and unabashed rule breaking. In 2018, 64 lakh challans were issued by the Delhi Police for people breaking traffic rules — which amounts to 17,357 cases per day. An earlier report by Patriot revealed that for the lack of proper infrastructure and understaffed traffic police (one […]

Mixed signals

Delhi’s auto wallas played a crucial role in AAP’s 2015 victory as the party’s supporters cum advertisers. But things have changed now and the sentiment is not so strong The Aam Aadmi Party garnered massive support in Delhi Assembly elections of 2015, getting 67 of 70 Assembly seats. The dominant feeling was that the city’s […]

Coughing, choking, gasping!

With every breath, we inhale heavy metals like nickel, lead, silicon and manganese. No wonder, the number of patients suffering from respiratory issues is on the rise With no previous history of respiratory ailments, 52-year-old Keshav Mohanan began complaining of persistent cough and breathing issues in November when the air pollution in Delhi reached unprecedented […]

We the people

No jubilation here: R-Day has little meaning in the lives of the working class, even 69 years after we got sovereignity While the middle class rues that Republic Day falls on Saturday this time, which is anyway an off day for most, in the informal sector, not many people can enjoy a holiday. The working […]

Corporate deceit

What price should be put on multinationals violating our environmental laws? The Rs 100 crore fine on Volkwagen is a mere drop, says petitioners In 2015, millions of car owners of Volkswagen woke up to the news that their German engineered car was one enabled to cheat its consumer. This was a major piece of […]

Delhi Policewali

Netflix release Soni is an honest take on a woman in a position of power struggling to find space in a man’s world Which Indian woman hasn’t heard of the familiar trick of applying sindoor (vermilion) in the parting of our hair as an acceptable measure to ward of sexual harassment? After the December 16 […]

Using data for good

Even if the Internet trend is being mined for facial recognition data, it’s beneficial to further machine learning 2019’s first Internet trend has probably been the #10YearChallenge, which encourages people to post contrasting images of themselves today compared to what they looked like 10 years ago. As with everything, activists who like to visualise an […]

Easy targets

The year 2019 has already seen two train robberies, despite promises in Parliament and performance audits that flag the vulnerable spots Two robberies on trains in the first three weeks of this year remind us of the old days when dacoits on horses used to raid trains — and remind us how unsafe our trains […]