When N. Lakshman Rau, IAS, the man who built the best parts of Bangalore, including all the 10 blocks of Jayanagar, retired as the City’s top administrator, he moved into …
Girish Karnad in the Daily Beast: “Only 20 years ago, when my wife and I decided to move to Bangalore from Bombay, we could visit a new suburb, buy a …
In March 1976, New Yorker magazine ran Saul Steinberg‘s tongue-in-cheek map of the world as seen by New Yorkers, more precisely as seen by New Yorkers on 9th avenue. That …
GAUTAMADITYA SRIDHARA captures an egret taking away his breakfast at the Lalbagh Lake in Bangalore on Sunday.
While reports of below-normal and deficient rainfall emanate from almost the rest of the country (and the rest of the State), blessed are those in coastal and south Karnataka where …
While the stars dazzle at the 75th anniversary celebrations of Kannada cinema, a police constable relives some sepia-tinted memories at an exhibition at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore on Monday. …
In the gardens of Bangalore palace, an audacious “outsider” grabs the birthright of worms of the soil and makes merry. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, Raj Thackeray gets ready to …
As inter-religious animosity in Karnataka travels from the coast to the capital under a benign and benevolent government which seems to think it was sworn into office to protect and …
For all the initial sizzle and high jinks, Saurav Ganguly‘s Calcutta Knight Riders have had as poor a run as Rahul Dravid‘s Royal Challengers. But unlike Dravid’s “employer” “Dr” Vijay …
KAVYA SHANKARE GOWDA forwards a YouTube video of ‘The Thaakath Geethe‘, the theme song for fans of the Bangalore IPL team, Royal Challengers. Created by Idea Labz, the Kannada-rap mix …
BANGALORE: A group of North Indian prisoners, most of them undertrials lodged in the central jail in Bangalore, have approached the High Court and demanded that they be served North …
MADHU GOPINATH RAO writes from New York City: With an undeniable laidback charm, not so long ago, Bangalore was your quaint old south Indian city—a pensioner’s paradise and a garden …
M.S. Prabhakara recounts his days in Bangalore in his farewell column in The Hindu today. Areas like Chikkapete, Balepete and Mamulpete, Banaswadi, Kadugodi and Adugodi, which were linked to this …
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: Reading as I do Star of Mysore on the web every evening over kodu bale and filter coffee, I came across the following news item …
Everybody has an opinion on why Bangalore has become what it has become, and who caused it. But does anybody have a solution? As the City’s vehicular population explodes, the …
The Economist has a story this week on India’s “misnomer” of an industry— information technology—with Mysore figuring in the very sentence. With revenues topping $50 billion, with annual growth rates …
“If IT is going to take away our basic values, then you can burn Bangalore and burn IT,” thunders born-in-Basavangudi C.N.R. Rao, in his as-told-to Outlook column. ALOK PRASANNA, also …
T.T. RAM MOHAN writes from Ahmedabad: What precisely are the grievances that people in Bangalore have against IT folk? The litany of complaints includes: rising property prices thanks to the …
RAJEEV RAO writes from Bangalore: I was bemused and bewildered to read the Outlook cover story, “Why Bangalore hates IT Culture“. The choice of topic and the headline used would …
Outlook magazine has a cover story this week titled, “Why Bangalore Hates the IT Culture”. Why? For land-grabbing, zooming property and rental rates, the rising cost of living. For creating …
ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: Development is fast becoming a strange dichotomous disease in India. The three most reform-minded States in the country—Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka—also top the list of …
SAVITHA G.R. writes from Bangalore: As the political dramayana took one embarrassing turn after another last week, NDTV 24×7 had a poser one night: ‘Is the Bangalore dream turning sour?’ …
NEW YORK CITY: Heaven knows that Bangalore has problems spilling out of its back pockets. But when the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcases a book titled ‘101 places not …