Sumana Narayanan

Mar 14, 2024 | citizenmatters.in | Harshitha Padmavinod |Shruti Gokarn |Sumana Narayanan

The traffic congestion at Outer Ring Road (ORR)-Sarjapura Road has been a long-standing issue. To address this, Citizen Matters held a panel discussion, ‘Solving Sarjapura-ORR Gridlock’ on February 26th.

Mar 8, 2024 | citizenmatters.in | Sumana Narayanan |Priya Rajagopal |Nitin Seshadri |Vardarajan Raman

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Nov 20, 2023 | theindiaforum.in | Sumana Narayanan

In June 2023, Karnataka launched a scheme making public buses free for women to enable greater social inclusion. The reaction on X (formerly Twitter) was telling. A post by a woman holding up her free ticket attracted a lot of flak with people noting that she looked like she could afford to pay for public transport. The question of why men had to subsidise women’s travel was also raised by many.

Aug 11, 2023 | chennai.citizenmatters.in | Sumana Narayanan

How big is your city? Growing up in Chennai, my knowledge and therefore idea of the city extended possibly between school, home, and a few other places I frequented. While this has expanded, I don’t think I realised how big it actually was. In October 2022, it was reported that the Tamil Nadu government had cleared a 5-fold expansion of the city – from 1189 km2 to 5904 km2. I was a bit shocked that my city was already 1189 km2 big and now had gotten even larger.