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BENGALURU'S SURPLUS WATER! Solving its perennial water crisis

Dr T V Ramachandra explains how exactly to do this

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Bengaluru city's annual water requirement is 18 TMCft. Harvesting rain and storing the rainwater in rejuvenated lakes will conserve 15 TMCft.

Add another 16 TMCft of treated waste water and you get 31 TMCft. Yes, Bengaluru can have surplus water!

To explain this in more detail, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to Dr T V Ramachandra from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science.

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FEAR OF THE THIRD WAVE

An interaction to sense the public mood

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Driven by the Omicron variant, Covid-19 cases are rising again, dangerously. Do people feel that we are already in the midst of a third wave? What are their fears and apprehensions?

DH Radio's J Shiruti speaks to a cross-section of people to find out.

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A UNIFIED TRANSPORT AUTHORITY

Will it change Bengaluru's mobility?

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For years, the BBMP, BMTC, BMRCL, Traffic Police and other agencies have been working in silos, while planning and building road and other mobility infrastructure for Bengaluru.

But the Bangalore Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA), if legislated in 2022, could change that.

It could become a platform for multiple agencies to collaborate and plan far ahead into the future. But BMLTA is just one of the many bills that will be passed this year.

To elaborate on this and other mobility issues this year, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to mobility analysts Sathya Sankaran and Ashwin Mahesh.

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'83' & BOLLYWOOD'S TRYST WITH SPORTS DRAMAS

An interaction between a sports writer and movie analyst

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In this episode of DH Radio, Vivek Mysore talks to Roshan Thyagarajan on the Ranveer Singh starrer '83' and discusses Bollywood's tryst with sports dramas.

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A CHAT WITH MISS UNIVERSE 2021

Harnaaz Sandhu speaks on body shaming, women's safety and more

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In this episode of DH Radio, Nina C George chats with Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu about a host of topics including how she overcame being a victim of body shaming, women's safety, transgender rights and more...

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SAFE COMMUTE, A LONG WAY OFF

Voices from the street: A safety question

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How safe are women commuting by cabs, auto rickshaws or even public transport?

How can the system ensure a robust safety network with an alert reporting and monitoring mechanism?

In this episode of DH Radio, J Shiruti interacts with a cross-section of women commuters to dive deep into this issue.

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GET OFF MY FOOTPATH, RIDER! A pedestrian problem

An interaction with Nikita Luke, Senior Project Associate, World Resources Institute (WRI)

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Footpaths are for pedestrians. Is that even a statement, you might ask. Well, such remarks need to be told in big, bold letters in a city like Bengaluru, where you need to look back, ahead, up and down before you take that next step.

For, behind you might be a motorcyclist speeding at you, taking – what he thinks is a smart shortcut - bypassing all that road traffic. Yes, right on your footpath. Don’t you have a right to stop him and say ‘Get off my footpath, rider!’?

To discuss these and much more, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to Nikita Luke, Senior Project Associate, World Resources Institute (WRI) India.

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KANNADA CINEMA: A year-end review

An interaction with YouTuber Kairam Vaashi

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In this episode, DH Radio's Vivek Mysore speaks to film reviewer and YouTuber Kairam Vaashi on the hits and misses and how Kannada cinema performed in 2021.

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A Metro link to Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) is years away. So why not get a suburban rail link to cover that long distance?

No, this is not the existing line that stops at the Airport Halt Station, but a separate corridor that goes right up to the airport terminal.

To talk about this at length, DH Radio's Rasheed Kappan speaks to Rajkumar Dugar, a mobility activist who has been tracking this corridor plan for years.

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In today's episode, DH Radio's Vivek Mysore speaks to Harish Mallya on what went right and wrong in the OTT space in 2021.

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