If you take a closer look towards the different wards of Hyderabad you will find a lot of poor areas. One of them is the slum area Rasoolpura. Besides a lot of other difficulties one of the major problems is the health situation. In fact a lot of diseases are waterborne and depending on polluted water. Read more »
Whoever has travelled during rush hours on the congested roads in Hyderabad, maybe standing in a hot and overcrowded bus while thousands of vehicle horns are joining in a loud cacophony, knows how desperately the city needs to improve its public transport facilities. A city the size of Hyderabad needs a rail-based rapid transport system. This gap now shall finally be filled with the Hyderabad Metro Rail. Read more »
For the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) initiated program “A new passage to India”, we four Ph. D. scholars- Kilian, Jasmin, Shikhar and me are working on project theme named “Urbanization and its effect on water resources”. In this regard, we have chosen fast growing urban areas like Hyderabad, Varanasi, Bhubneshwar etc. for our study about different topics. Such as, Kilian is studying about interaction between water management and informal processes; Jasmin is working on impact of urban lifestyle on water resources in India; Shikhar is interested in analysis of groundwater quality in Hyderabad and Varanasi and I am studying about effect of urbanization on groundwater recharge in Hyderabad. It’s been almost two years since we are working and helping each other in our work and its really nice experience to know about their view and observations about India. Read more »
The Holy Trinity Church in the Begumpet area of Hyderabad has a smelly problem. The large grounds within its compound area have been flooded with sewage water for several days now. Read more »
“Lebensstil” or lifestyle is a term that has in the social sciences a significant upswing since Bourdieu’s publication “Distinction”. Furthermore, the term is now experiencing an inflationary use in various fields. On the one hand the lifestyle concept is used for the analysis of social structure as expansion or differentiation from class or caste models of social differences. On the other hand, the term is object of critique in connection with “western”, “modern” way of life, or even the “American Way of Life”, for example in relation to health issues or sustainability. Thus the modern, sedentary lifestyle is a risk factor for several diseases, such as obesity and the energy-intensive Western lifestyle threatens due to the high CO2 emissions and climate change the environmental conditions. Read more »
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