✎ Gutte Speaks
Why this exists
I have three years of civic notes rotting in a vault nobody reads, including me. This is the fix — think in public, get corrected faster.
GovernanceBangalore2 min
Gutte speaks · Gutte reports
Thinking out loud about the city.
Current events, civic problems, and half-formed ideas — worked out in public rather than left to rot in a notes app. Opinion is labelled as opinion. Sourced pieces carry a tier and a link. You should always be able to tell which one you're reading.
Gutte has outlived every flood, heatwave, ten-hour power cut and grand plan ever announced. He is not impressed, but he is still taking notes.
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The pothole is not the problem
Every monsoon we photograph the same holes and tag the same handles. The hole is a symptom of a procurement calendar, and the calendar is the thing nobody photographs.
InfrastructureBangalore2 min
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How I organise a civic problem
A four-column method for pulling a civic complaint apart before trying to fix it. Mostly stolen from incident response.
Economy & Civic ServicesIndore2 min
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What the Swachh rankings actually measure
Indore has topped the national cleanliness survey for years. Reading the actual scoring framework, a large share of the score is documentation and certification rather than observed street condition.
EnvironmentIndore2 min
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