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Bengaluru activists drum up support for protecting Janatha BazaarHeritage enthusiasts are holding lectures, tours, running social media awareness campaigns and writing to their legislators.
Demolishing statues to renaming roads, here's Bangaluru's politics of uncomfortable historyMark Cubbon was the longest-serving commissioner of the erstwhile Mysore State and arguably the most-remembered British administrator in Be...
Rs 2.7-crore ‘Niagara Falls’ checks in but historic Javaraya Falls is deadAn environmentalist aware of the project, who did not want to be named, called this a shoddy temporary fix. “Anyone can pump water through ...
The inheritance of loss: Bengaluru is busy destroying architectural links to its pastThe absence of strong heritage laws to ensure that the government maintains protects and preserves old buildings of cultural importance was...
Inside the 150-yr-old bungalow that once housed the horticulturist behind Bengaluru’s Garden City tagPart of the 10,000-sqft British-era building (among the first to get a heritage tag in the city) the bungalow houses the MH Marigowda Natio...
Century-old Krumbiegel Hall in Lalbagh collapsesThe lecture hall, named after Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel, a former superintendent of Lalbagh, was one of the oldest heritage structures insi...
Layers of Lalbagh: From rocks dating back to 3,000 mn years and a watchtower built by Bengaluru’s ‘founder’ Kempe GowdaThe Independence Day flower show that opens in Lalbagh today is just one of the several layers of history that this botanical reserve repre...
When horticulturist Krumbiegel's granddaughter visited Bengaluru to see her ancestors' creationKrumbiegel was the brain behind the imaginatively conceived flower sequences around Lalbagh.
Date with history: All you need to know about the iconic Lalbagh's Glass House built in 1889The Lalbagh garden, spread across 25 acres today, was commissioned by ruler of Mysuru, Haider Ali, in 1760 and was completed by his son Tip...