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Ojas Shetty

How the Vidhana Soudha became such a hostile public space

The Vidhana Soudha is the largest state legislative building in India and one of the most popular tourist attractions in Bangalore city. In…

13 min readFeb 15, 2024

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How the Vidhana Soudha became such a hostile public space

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Ojas Shetty

Speed Assessment is Key to Reducing Road Crash Fatalities in Urban India

In a country where more than eighty thousand people lose their lives each year to speeding, a lot needs to be done beyond surveillance and…

5 min readJan 5, 2023

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Speed Assessment is Key to Reducing Road Crash Fatalities in Urban India

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Ojas Shetty

Ghalata-e-Dakhnistan — At Bangalore International Centre, 10th June 2022

Pasha Bhai aako hin kato darbaar ich ma (Look, Pasha Bhai is on the scene, now it’s a celebration) Inke tanty’n me gayes’ wale barbaad ich…

7 min readJun 12, 2022

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Ghalata-e-Dakhnistan — At Bangalore International Centre, 10th June 2022

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Ojas Shetty

Regulating New Mobility II: The Changing Framework of Motor Vehicle Regulations in India and its…

This is the second of a two-part series on the impact of the Motor Vehicles Act on shared mobility enterprises in India, first published at…

4 min readNov 3, 2021

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Regulating New Mobility II: The Changing Framework of Motor Vehicle Regulations in India and its…

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Ojas Shetty

Regulating New Mobility I: What does India’s Motor Vehicles Act mean for shared mobility…

This is the first of a two-part series on the impact of the Motor Vehicles Act on shared mobility enterprises in India, first published at…

4 min readNov 3, 2021

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Regulating New Mobility I: What does India’s Motor Vehicles Act mean for shared mobility…

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Ojas Shetty

Indian roads need better speed management, not higher limits. Here’s why

Even as the country accounts for 2% of all motor vehicles in the world, it is responsible for 11% of all global road traffic deaths.

5 min readOct 31, 2021

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Indian roads need better speed management, not higher limits. Here’s why

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Ojas Shetty

Visualizing Layoffs & Cutbacks in Indian Newsrooms during COVID–19

I built a web-interactive timeline and dashboard of pandemic-accelerated layoffs and cutbacks in the Indian news industry.

4 min readAug 12, 2020

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Visualizing Layoffs & Cutbacks in Indian Newsrooms during COVID–19

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Ojas Shetty

Understanding the Impact of Bus Aggregators on Urban Mobility in India’s National Capital Region

This research was first published at World Resources Institute in February 2020.

2 min readFeb 7, 2020

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Understanding the Impact of Bus Aggregators on Urban Mobility in India’s National Capital Region

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Ojas Shetty

Tactical Urbanism: How low-cost, temporary changes to physical infrastructure can help make our…

A pop-up initiative to redesign a junction is reclaiming space for pedestrians in Mumbai’s Bandra suburb

6 min readOct 8, 2018

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Tactical Urbanism: How low-cost, temporary changes to physical infrastructure can help make our…

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Ojas Shetty

50 Shades of Shared: How On-demand Technology Reshaped India’s Urban Mobility Landscape

India’s urban transport sector has seen tremendous change in the last 15 years. This is the last in a series of three posts that examines…

6 min readFeb 5, 2018

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50 Shades of Shared: How On-demand Technology Reshaped India’s Urban Mobility Landscape

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Ojas Shetty

Ojas Shetty

Urban Practitioner, Multimedia Producer, Cultural Propagandist. I write critically about cities, mobility, public spaces, data and hip-hop

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