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Articles by Lavanya Donthamshetty

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Lavanya Donthamshetty is a freelance writer based in Chennai.
Civic

Need an address change on your licence? Be prepared!

March 9, 2017 Lavanya Donthamshetty

A Chennai citizen’s first person account of her experience at the RTO as she queues up to change her residential address on her driving licence.

Society

Women’s safety: Is self help the best help?

September 19, 2016 Lavanya Donthamshetty

Crimes against women are on the rise and every day, women everywhere are losing their life and liberty as easily and as carelessly as bugs get crushed under our feet.

Governance

V. Balakrishnan IPS – DCP Mylapore – Man on a Mission

August 11, 2016 Lavanya Donthamshetty

V. Balakrishnan IPS, popularly known as ‘Balky’, is one of Chennai city’s top cops. A student of Mass Communication, he understands the power of communication and the role of media thoroughly and uses the might

Environment

When Civic Mindedness Triumphed Over Apathy – Lavanya D

June 27, 2016 Lavanya Donthamshetty

When Civic Mindedness Triumphed Over Apathy For all those times we have walked past a mound of garbage on the street and turned our nose up to declare: “ugh! What filth! Why isn’t anyone doing

Governance

Everything you wanted to know about voting but didn’t know whom to ask

May 5, 2016 Lavanya Donthamshetty

“Don’t forget! May 16!” scream the posters. They are quite hard to miss, plastered as they are onto every vertical surface in the vicinity of any government building, local corporation school, bus shelters, trees or

Governance

Chennai voters wary of disappearing acts

April 22, 2014 Lavanya Donthamshetty

In the countdown to the 2014 elections, voters told this author that they don’t want smooth-talking, fast-disappearing politicians. They want results and they want them fast.

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குடியிருப்போர் நலச் சங்கம்: நீங்கள் தெரிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டியவை

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நேர்காணல்: சென்னைக்கு கோவிட் தடுப்பூசி எப்போது?

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