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Hello Bengaluru

August 11, 2017 Keane Matenga

I’m currently on a six month Idex Fellowship in Bengaluru, India . I will be writing this blog as I go along and then periodically post my progress. This is my first trip to India,

Getting lost in Auroville and a chance meeting with two incredible Aussie travelers

July 31, 2017 Akshatha M

The way life throws surprises at you! It was on July 29th evening I was standing all alone in some corner of Auroville, located at a distance of around 12 kilometres from the main town

Goodbye Bengaluru, thanks for reading!

September 20, 2016 Kate Clark

Ten weeks have flown by and my internship with Citizen Matters has come to a quick end. Tomorrow, I will board a flight, but I will not be leaving India just yet. I am looking

You, too, can visit a nuclear power plant!

February 26, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Most of us tend to think of nuclear power plants as extremely high-security areas where the general public is not allowed. But in a striking example of friendliness and transparency, the Nuclear Power Corporation of

Potty training in Bengaluru

August 4, 2015 Holly Thorpe

Dear reader, who I may know well or not at all, you are going to get to know all sorts of strange things about me. Let’s be forward with each other, shall we? Today, for instance,

The dissonance in my gut: When ideas of skin colour and identity are challenged abroad

July 24, 2015 Holly Thorpe

In the United States, I’m never really forced to think about the colour of my skin. I suspect very few white, middle-class girls are, although I may be wrong there. This is a privilege, a

Charging foreigners more for tickets: A jab on a tourist’s face?

July 11, 2015 Holly Thorpe

I was standing in awe of a temple carved out of stone, the colour of a sunset in a place in North Karnataka, when my travelling companion approached me. She’d been speaking with the man

First week in a city that refuses to be ignored

July 2, 2015 Holly Thorpe

From the moment I stepped off the plane, it became impossible to forget that I was in Bengaluru; the city demanded my attention. The humidity that alighted on my skin and curled my hair, the

An open letter to auto drivers from a foreign college student

April 8, 2015 Eden Ezsak

Pic: Deepa Mohan Auto-drivers come in all shapes and sizes: old, young, thin, fat, toothless, handsome, smelly, bearded, grumpy, cheery, etc. Like a good box of chocolates, you never know what kind of driver you’re

Transporting pets by air within India: Anand Sankar’s experience

February 20, 2015 Deepa Mohan

Anand Sankar, who transported his two cats from Bangalore to Delhi by air, writes: Just thought I should share my experience of transporting my cats by air (domestic, within India), could be useful for anyone!

Intense-City

During the festival…

November 12, 2014 Vivek M

A photo can speak thousand words. This is a peek into the life of Tigalas during the Karaga festival, through a photo.

New dawn in the land of chaotic traffic and spicy food

July 25, 2014 Christopher Martin Lopaze

My memory of arriving in Bengaluru is as fresh in my mind as the sweat on my brow was as I exited my plane at the Bangalore Airport about 1 am on July 1st. The

India: 10 years on and worlds apart

January 15, 2014 Claire Graham

I remember arriving in India for the first time, into New Delhi almost 10 years ago. I would liken it to a bull calf walking into the ring for the first time. A million things

Amenities at City Railway Station

November 20, 2013 Deepa Mohan

Did you know that so many amenities exist in the Bangalore City Railway Station? Here is the list of amenities provided at the City Railway Station. Such things as, “Comesum is a 24hr multi cuisine

Campus Diem

Day Tripping (Part Un)

October 9, 2008 Siri Srinivas

Yes, we’ve been away. No No, quite literally. When we heard that NIT Trichy’s annual cultural fest Festember was starting on the 18th of September, we jumped at the idea. The veterans who have traveled