Arnav Chandrasekhar

Know Your City: From Padminis to pre-war classics, Bengaluru’s vintage car enthusiasts keep automotive nostalgia alive

March 25, 2026 11:49 IST

Bengaluru’s vintage car enthusiasts, across generations, are keeping automotive history alive through restoration, community drives, and shared passion.

A Tesla wrapped in art: Bengaluru exhibition reimagines future through renewables and AI

March 24, 2026 12:18 IST

Under the theme 'Tomorrow, Altered,' Whitefield Art Collective brings together Grammy winner Ricky Kej and local artists to drive a message of environmental action through more than 300 unique displays.

No degree required: How this Bengaluru initiative is making complex art history accessible to public

March 19, 2026 22:01 IST

The Art and Photography Foundation has unveiled IMPART, a revamped digital platform formerly known as the MAP Academy. Led by director Varun Nayar, the initiative features a 2,500-entry Encyclopedia of Art and interactive timelines.

Writer’s Corner: How a young Bengaluru photographer captured 35 bird species in city

March 18, 2026 15:41 IST

Chuk-chukiya, Anvita Trivedi's coffee-table style book is devoted to 35 of the different species of birds one might expect to see around Bengaluru city.   

Know Your City: The passion keeping Bengaluru’s homing pigeon legacy aliveSubscriber Only

February 24, 2026 13:48 IST

Bengaluru’s formal association with pigeon racing dates back to the 1920s, when the Bangalore Homing Society was established.

She wanted to donate her kidney to a stranger, so this Bengaluru doctor approached the high courtSubscriber Only

February 15, 2026 07:09 IST

The 58-year-old Bengaluru resident and a fetal medicine consultant at Manipal Hospital is now recovering at home after successfully donating her kidney to a woman, also in her 50s.

Word power in Bengaluru: World No. 3 Hubert Wee among winners at 20th Indian Open Scrabble ChampionshipSubscriber Only

January 27, 2026 20:02 IST

After Madhav Kamath’s historic 2025 World Youth title, the 20th Indian Open showcased the rising global profile of Scrabble, which is now adopting a chess-like Grandmaster system.

Writer’s Corner: How a $1,000 coupon contest launched Shoba Narayan’s writing careerSubscriber Only

January 20, 2026 19:59 IST

The James Beard-nominated author shares her journey from a journalism student in New York to a chronicler of Bengaluru’s evolving soul.

Know Your City | Bengaluru in the 1870s, through the eyes of a man who once ruled itSubscriber Only

January 13, 2026 20:13 IST

According to Sir Lewin Bentham Bowring, Bengaluru had in 1869 a population of 1,32,000, including 79,000 in the cantonment area, with only 3,900 Europeans and Englishmen and 2,500 ‘Eurasians’.

‘Only on paper’: Why Karnataka HC wants 30-year-old Bengaluru-Mysuru Infra Corridor project scrapped, started afreshSubscriber Only

January 13, 2026 13:32 IST

The Bengaluru-Mysuru Infrastructure Corridor project has become a source of extensive litigation with over 2,000 cases related to it currently pending, the Karnataka High Court noted.

Dispute over Bannerghatta National Park’s ESZ: What the CEC report has recommendedSubscriber Only

January 10, 2026 15:14 IST

After an exhaustive examination of the issue in a document that exceeds five hundred pages, the CEC has laid out several key conditions after the recent visit by their team to BNP

Writer’s Corner: Anjum Hasan on contrasts of being a writer and what Bengaluru brings to her writing deskSubscriber Only

December 24, 2025 12:40 IST

Anjum Hasan discusses the duality of her writing experience, balancing the solidity of traditional literature with modern trends.

‘My words were not shaped by comfort’: Bangalore Literature Festival starts with keynote address by International Booker Prize winner Banu MushtaqSubscriber Only

December 07, 2025 15:50 IST

International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq gave a poetic account of her life and philosophy of writing on the inaugural day of the 14th edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival.

Bengaluru hosts run to raise awareness about issues faced by children with HIV

November 30, 2025 14:50 IST

As the participating children are part of the Foundation's Positive Running programme, it also served to raise funds to expand and maintain the initiative.

Shrimp species rediscovered in Karnataka and Odisha after 72 yearsSubscriber Only

November 29, 2025 21:51 IST

A team of researchers from the Centre for Climate Change Studies in Chennai’s Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology rediscovered Indian populations of the bamboo shrimp.

Writer’s Corner: Sugata Srinivasaraju on the origins of ‘The Conscience Network’ and how journalism has shaped his outputSubscriber Only

November 25, 2025 13:06 IST

In 2020, when Sugata Srinivasaraju was carrying out research for a column, he stumbled upon an article in The New York Times and a “gut feeling” told him that there was a much larger story behind the diaspora’s resistance to the Emergency.

Know Your City: Learn about evolution, diversity, and economic significance of insects at this Bengaluru museumSubscriber Only

November 18, 2025 21:38 IST

NBAIR maintains live insect cultures for pest control and a research repository containing over 300,000 insect specimens.

‘Relationship born of mutual volition’: Karnataka HC relief for man accused of rape by woman he met on dating appSubscriber Only

October 28, 2025 12:22 IST

The couple had allegedly kept in touch for some years before getting physically intimate in Bengaluru last year, following which the woman lodged a complaint alleging rape against the man.

Know Your City | When tigers and orangutans called Bengaluru’s Lalbagh homeSubscriber Only

October 21, 2025 21:16 IST

The circular aviary seems to be the last physical remnant of Lalbagh's time as a zoo.

Money laundering tribunal cannot send back property attachment order for reconsideration: Karnataka High CourtSubscriber Only

October 17, 2025 23:15 IST

The Enforcement Directorate had approached the Karnataka High Court against an earlier judgment of the PMLA tribunal

Know Your City: a look at the Bengaluru that was, through the lens of Winston Churchill and other colonial figuresSubscriber Only

October 06, 2025 16:13 IST

While Rev William Arthur provides detailed notes on how commerce was carried out by Kannadiga merchants in the pete, Sir George Bell has left behind interesting descriptions of the trees of Bangalore.

HC dismisses X Corp’s plea against Govt order to take down contentSubscriber Only

September 25, 2025 04:00 IST

Launched in 2024 by the Union Home Ministry, the Sahyog Portal expedites orders to block objectionable content. It is maintained by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C).

Know Your City: At Blr Reads, turning the pages of Bengaluru’s past and presentSubscriber Only

September 24, 2025 10:16 IST

Last month, Blr Reads, a reference library with a small but rich collection of books, opened its doors, drawing in residents eager to know more about the city.

How Karnataka’s new law aims to achieve ease of living and business by decriminalising several offencesSubscriber Only

September 17, 2025 19:07 IST

The Karnataka Decriminalisation (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2025, decriminalises and rationalises several offences across 12 laws.

Writer’s Corner | ‘People make the place’: how Maya Jayapal went from chronicling Jakarta and Singapore to BengaluruSubscriber Only

September 16, 2025 11:24 IST

As time chips away at Bengaluru's history, Maya Jayapal is certain that it still has its place. “I think you need to find what was there so you can see the shadows, the far-reaching influences,” she says.