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Only an estimated 5% of India’s speed breakers are made according to norms. The rest pop up without warning, posing a threat to your back, car or worse
Editor's note: “If you have five minutes, I want to show you something.” Vivek Velankar walks me out of his house and into his neighbourhood. It’s 11 a.m. on a weekday but the streets of Patwardhan Baug are empty. The bungalows and apartments are quietly blushing with autumn colours. Somewhere, a dog is barking lazily. All this is a welcome relief in a city like Pune, where cafes are taking over chai-kattas (hang-out spots), and the old wadas (bungalows) are counting their days before glass-front towers come up in their place. A high-speed bus corridor is being tried out in some places; there’s a metro line coming up as well. The persistence of such neighbourhoods is largely due to the efforts of traditionalists like Velankar. To them, development doesn’t mean more steel and concrete. They like their Pune calm and leafy. We stop at a four-way traffic junction. Velankar points to a street on our right. “This was in 2002,” he says. “We woke up one day to find a speed breaker had come up on this street overnight. There was no …
Only an estimated 5% of India’s speed breakers are made according to norms. The rest pop up without warning, posing a threat to your back, car or worse
Editor's note: “If you have five minutes, I want to show you something.” Vivek Velankar walks me out of his house and into his neighbourhood. It’s 11 a.m. on a weekday but the streets of Patwardhan Baug are empty. The bungalows and apartments are quietly blushing with autumn colours. Somewhere, a dog is barking lazily. All this is a welcome relief in a city like Pune, where cafes are taking over chai-kattas (hang-out spots), and the old wadas (bungalows) are counting their days before glass-front towers come up in their place. A high-speed bus corridor is being tried out in some places; there’s a metro line coming up as well. The persistence of such neighbourhoods is largely due to the efforts of traditionalists like Velankar. To them, development doesn’t mean more steel and concrete. They like their Pune calm and leafy. We stop at a four-way traffic junction. Velankar points to a street on our right. “This was in 2002,” he says. “We woke up one day to find a speed breaker had come up on this street overnight. There was no …
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
As India’s largest stock exchange heads to the public markets, it may need to rethink its excessive reliance on transaction revenue.
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
As India’s largest stock exchange heads to the public markets, it may need to rethink its excessive reliance on transaction revenue.
