The Concrete Oven: Bangalore Heat Or A Feminist Crisis?
Today, let us speak about our city, and buy that we do not mean the Silicon Valley of India, or its tech parks and breweries, but the one which is a cement furnace at 2.00 PM in the end of March. Every one of us has known how the breeze is stuffy suddenly, how the label of the Garden City with the cherry blossoms trickles into your shoulder like a needle-jab. But where we talk of this heat we talk frequently enough clinical. We define such terms as Urban Heat Islands and ground water depletion. At Climate and She it seemed that there was something missing in this information-laden dialogue. We realized that climate change is conscious, and also, she is going through unknown troubles. That was the catalyst to our flagship project the Project #MenoPAUSE as in the actuality of a metropolitan city undergoing warming, the biological and the environmental come into conflict with each other in a way our policy-makers, and our families are no longer listening to. Project #MenoPAUSE was conceiv...