Sabah V
@sabahvir
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Journalist @htmumbai, covers city, civic issues and communities | Previously @CitizenMatters, @FiftyTwoDotIn - [email protected] for leads
Mumbai
Joined December 2017
Lives are lost in Mumbai when builders flout construction norms. A long list of people have died due to poor safety while doing everyday things like walking, commuting, having chai. Debris, rods, slabs fall from the sky out of nowhere. Here is what happens next:
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"The draft masterplan has been prepared to open up protected land to builders,” Debi Goenka. Even the forest department and SGNP authority have sent in their objections to the masterplan. #SaveSGNP
hindustantimes.com
The meeting is a hearing for members of the public to register objections to the draft masterplan, a mandatory process that has scheduled meetings from November 19 to 28 at the BMC headquarters. More...
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If you don't consciously pay attention like this, you might not even notice it in your everyday life
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What was once an arm of citizen enforcement of traffic rules has now disappeared from the Mumbai Traffic app. https://t.co/FZV8APND56
Unbelievable. After months of chasing Mumbai Traffic Police, they didn’t fix the app - they removed the Report Violation option altogether So law-breaking vehicles stay, citizen voices go silent Are we supposed to just shut up and suffer? @MTPHereToHelp, restore it. NOW. 🚶♂️🚫🚔
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What a Wonderful initiative by @MTPHereToHelp No more Citizens complaints against Traffic Offenses. Simply Genius 😂 @sabahvir @HT_Mumbai
https://t.co/cpnSyaWJaS
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Lives are lost in Mumbai when builders flout construction norms. A long list of people have died due to poor safety while doing everyday things like walking, commuting, having chai. Debris, rods, slabs fall from the sky out of nowhere. Here is what happens next:
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It's easy to turn this into some kind of dark humour by calling it Final Destination: Mumbai or something but the fact is that people die, while doing the most routine things in this city and it is almost always due to a total apathy to compliance Great story by @sabahvir
Lives are lost in Mumbai when builders flout construction norms. A long list of people have died due to poor safety while doing everyday things like walking, commuting, having chai. Debris, rods, slabs fall from the sky out of nowhere. Here is what happens next:
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Anyone one of us can be next. MMR is becoming a death region thanks to unabated construction, corruption and lawlessness. Who is responsible for these innocent lives?
Lives are lost in Mumbai when builders flout construction norms. A long list of people have died due to poor safety while doing everyday things like walking, commuting, having chai. Debris, rods, slabs fall from the sky out of nowhere. Here is what happens next:
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A long list of people who have died while doing everyday things like walking, commuting, having chai 😕 #SpiritOfMumbai
Lives are lost in Mumbai when builders flout construction norms. A long list of people have died due to poor safety while doing everyday things like walking, commuting, having chai. Debris, rods, slabs fall from the sky out of nowhere. Here is what happens next:
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I traced down families of incidental victims of past construction site accidents. The story that emerged is that of systemic neglect, out-of-court settlements, forgotten court cases, lack of monitoring by BMC, and lakhs of hush money by builders. Read:
hindustantimes.com
After construction site accidents claim lives, what follows is a murky mix of private settlements, weak oversight, and little justice for victims left behind
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A new political party to fight for pigeon feeding rights, to contest for the BMC polls @sabahvir reports https://t.co/Z9z1GKhvpb
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Jain leaders have announced a new political party to fight for pigeon feeding rights in the upcoming BMC elections. https://t.co/J3O06bHCKg
hindustantimes.com
The meeting was attended by religious leaders of Jainism and ‘Sanatan dharma’ (a term now used by Hindutvavadis for the Hindu religion), Hare Krishna monks and Buddhists
On my way to the ground in Delhi and my heart sank when I saw people feeding a whole army of pigeons. Doctors have been shouting from the rooftops about the dangers of inhaling pigeon droppings and the severe lung disease it could lead to. Please, let us stop feeding pigeons.
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At one time, 28 articles by Jerry Pinto were slated to be published in the same Sunday edition of a daily newspaper. Then, Girish Shahane told him: “Jerry, you could do so much more if you did so much less.” A profile by @janeborges9
https://t.co/8qh0JI8fwx
mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com
Jerry Pinto never set out to be an author. Then Penguin called. Over two decades, a Sahitya Akademi Award and a Windham–Campbell Prize later, he’s still winging it — one soufflé, one city street, one...
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Snake Bridge on Macclesfield Canal in Astbury village, England.
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Wrote about this quick and convenient fix to commuter woes in BKC, which see Mumbai getting a pedestrian bridge over the Mithi river. https://t.co/fKtiI76udq
A well-designed pedestrian bridge across the Mithi would immediately cut down the 2.7 km walk from Kurla to ONGC to just about 1–1.5 km from Sion and Chunabhatti, respectively — roughly the same distance as between CSMT and Kala Ghoda or the Bombay High Court. Distances which
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