Heritage

My memories of Neralu, Bangalore’s first crowd funded tree fiesta held in around Cubbon Park on 8th and February 9th 2014.   We walkedand talkedabout trees,birds and bees There were songs and dancesof green romancesplays, talesand

I met a lot of interesting people today. My friend Jayashree Govindarajan put me in touch with Nidhi Manoj and Reshmi Chakraborti, who have been, for the past two years, running an e-magazine called Silver

It’s quite unusual to go to review a play that’s been running for some time, but I did just that on the 23rd of January, as I went to watch “The Incredible Mullah Nasruddin” at

What is it –A city, town or village?‘Twas a pensioners’ paradise it seemsHaving a colonial hangoverAmidst MEG, BEL, HMT, ITIUsurped by the silicon dump With its Nagars, Towns and hallis‘Tis an escape no moreFrom the

She’s naked, covered with ashes, her hair matted with snakes in them, a garland of skulls and freshly cut heads around her neck. She laughs like madness herself, dancing to the chaotic rhythm of death,

Last Sunday I took a friend and her nine-year-old daughter to Bull Temple in Bangalore. It’s the place with the country’s largest monolith bull – known to be Nandi, the servant bull of Shiva. The majestic Nandi

Subramanyapura Uttarahalli Lake Improvement Trust (SUNLIT) is trying to clean up the Kalyani (temple tank) situated next to Vasanthapura Sai Baba Temple, Subramanyapura (South Bangalore).    ***** Phanisai Bharadwaj, Managing Trustee of SUNLIT invites citizens

Ganjam in association with Bangalore Little Theatre presents `Tiger ! Tiger ! ‘ by (the late) Dina Mehta, a site-specific theatre exploration that is being performed at the Bangalore Fort. The performance is a part

Timber Depot, Dandeli, Karnataka, 251012 The sun slants into the groveIn a million rays.The leaves take beautyIn a million ways.We, who see it, cannot hope to createA hundredth part of such a scene.We can only

Just in case you are bored with Bangalore Ganeshas, here’s a good offer for you: If you walk down Jaya Chamarendra Road (J C Road), you can find a variety of images: Including this one,

On Id-ul-Adha, the Moon, too, seems to have sacrificed some of Herself: The festival is also called Bakrid, and this is not because the Bakri (Goat) is beingvenerated, it’s because it is going to be

  Everyone feels festive, and rather generous, on an auspicious day…and many people like to tap into this vein of generosity.   Here’s the itenerant with his decorated cow…she walks through the streets on festivals