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A year and half back, the city was a change I did not want to deal with. Everything started melting into something unknown. Metamorphosis The trees were uprooted while people were sleeping. There was not a single tree on CMH road. Ulsoor was missing. Sliced buildings draped in sand and rubble. On Sundays, leftovers of …

A holistic take on the recent campaign (s) to save the trees of Lalbagh, Nanda Road and Lakshman Rao park in opposition to the State and BMRCL. A desperate middle class bid to reclaim identity pitted against notions of new visions of progress and development.

Just thought I would add my response to the Sunday – Theatre Jam. It really was a great feeling to be around at Nelmangla watching/doing plays under trees, in a caged room, on river banks and the like  – sounds pretty wild – but the whole experience really was fascinating to say the least. For …

The City of Gardens (a Center for Film & Drama production) was staged in the city of Bangalore recently and seemed to promise a lot and invite you in. No, not in terms of publicity- I didn’t know about it until I landed at Rangashankara’s café for a meeting. Though I do recount now that someone …

The Bangalore City Project , is a cultural and social experiment, under the aegis of the Goethe Institute-Max Mueller Bhavan. To be specific, the Bhavan is providing infrastructural support for a group of interested people/volunteers/organizations to come and discuss possibilities of a “better” Bangalore. With a wonderful buffet laid out, the BCP involves a good varied mix …

As producers of radio programs ourselves, as well as promoters of community media, we are beginning to build an archive of radio programs, which we’d like you to hear and comment on. The title of each program is given in each podcast. These programs are multilingual, in English, Kannada, Tamil, sometimes in the same program! …

Radio Active (RA), is the first and only functional community radio station in Bangalore. Housed in Mahaveer Jain college, RA operates currently on 107.8 MHz and radiates its programmes at 100 W. With FM technology, it is accessible to the common woman, and aims to engage its communities with relevant programming on areas like health, …