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A 19th century panopticon on gracious Seshadri Road

The plan of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791. (HT photo)

Published on Jul 01, 2025 05:24 AM IST

Art and the Man: In memory of K Venkatappa

K Venkatappa (1886-1965), one of the foremost students of Abanindranath Tagore, was variously irascible, eccentric, independent-minded, litigious, and an extraordinary painter, sculptor and veena player. The painting is of Abanindranath Tagore (HT photo)

Published on Jun 17, 2025 09:18 AM IST

A tryst with destiny - and cricketing history

For an incredible fourth time, Virat Kohli, who has worn the RCB colours since its founding, will walk into a capacity stadium filled with the most loyal fans in the world (File photo)

Published on Jun 03, 2025 07:36 AM IST

The day the Bangalore Mail steamed into town

This year, the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), with its interminable delays in the opening of the Yellow Line, has offered itself up for the honour (Hindustan Times)

Published on May 20, 2025 08:06 AM IST

Horse power: The bronze equestrians of Bengaluru

The oldest equestrian statues is the statue of Sir Mark Cubbon, Commissioner of Bangalore from 1834 to 1861. His statue, cast in bronze by Baron Marochetti, a Chelsea sculptor who was the toast of London society, arrived in Bangalore in 1866, and eventually found a home in the park that was named after him. (Shutterstock)

Published on May 06, 2025 06:18 AM IST

Citizen philanthropy: An old Bangalore tradition

Among the noteworthy Vellalars who contributed immensely to the city is Mangalam Chinnaswamy Mudaliar, the cricket administrator after whom RCB’s home stadium is named (PTI)

Published on Apr 22, 2025 08:10 AM IST

A chapel for St Mary: A French story for Lent

After the pathbreaking voyages of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama had opened up the western and eastern worlds to Europe, Spain and Portugal received from the Pope the exclusive right to evangelize conquered lands, and went at it full-tilt (File photo)

Published on Apr 08, 2025 07:30 AM IST

March of history: Bengaluru’s fateful vernal equinox

Bangalore Fort (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Mar 25, 2025 08:30 AM IST

A shot at history: Twelve decades on South Parade

Building of S Mahadeo & Son (wikimedia commons)

Published on Mar 11, 2025 06:13 AM IST

The pen as sword: A short history of rebellion

The first Bandaya Sahitya Sammelana was held in Bangalore on March 10 and 11, 1979, the year Banu Mushtaq turned 25 (Hindustan Times)

Published on Feb 27, 2025 07:20 AM IST

Jai Hind! and its Karnataka connection

Champakaraman Pillai, a prominent name in the pro-Indian revolutionary movement in Europe, had coined the slogan ‘Jai Hind!’ (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Jan 28, 2025 06:50 AM IST

Church bells and school bells: A Christmas story

In a 200-year-old Bangalore tradition, the English-speaking faithful (all faiths welcome) will gather for the Christmas Mass at the St Mark’s Cathedral, the first garrison church in the erstwhile Bangalore Cantonment (AFP)

Updated on Dec 24, 2024 06:12 AM IST

Painting history: The legacy of Robert Home

Bangalore fell to Cornwallis in March 1791, soon after Home had joined the party, giving him ample opportunity to make extensive sketches of Tipu’s Palace, the Bangalore Fort (from inside and out) (Bettmann Archive)

Updated on Dec 13, 2024 06:58 AM IST

Ee Mannu Chinna: A Karnataka Cornucopia

November 26, is also Samvidhan Divas, or Constitution Day, the day when, 125 years ago, India adopted her brilliantly crafted, almost flawless Constitution (Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:42 AM IST

Tiger, Tyger: A Tipu Sultan birthday story

the date of his birth is disputed – there is little agreement on whether it is November 10, November 20, or December 1, or whether that event happened in 1750 or 1751. (File photo)

Updated on Nov 12, 2024 07:04 AM IST

Hope, healing and hospitals: A Deepavali story for all

Lady Dufferin’s mantle was taken up by the wives of successive Viceroys, but most enthusiastically by Mary Victoria Leiter, the dynamic American wife of Lord Curzon, who was appointed Viceroy in 1899. It was her endowment to the Bowring Hospital that resulted in the founding of the maternity hospital attached to it, the Lady Curzon Hospital. (File photo)

Updated on Oct 31, 2024 05:00 AM IST

A Bengaluru man in a Vijayanagara prison

The rise of Kempegowda I as chieftain of Yelahanka, an agricultural region at the southern border of the empire, began in the 1520s, when Krishna Deva Raya reigned supreme over the southern peninsula (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Oct 15, 2024 07:36 AM IST

The Sundarams: Bangalore’s first couple of aviation

In 1951, tasked with purchasing the trendy de Havilland Dove for the government of Madras, the couple travelled to England by ship and then flew the Dove from London to Bombay in 27 hours, setting a record flight-time for piston-engine aircraft that is yet to be surpassed. (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 01, 2024 06:30 AM IST

The first ladies of the Kannada Kadambari

MK Indira was best known as the writer of the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Phaniyamma, the heart-wrenching true story of a child widow in an unrelentingly orthodox Karnataka village at the turn of the 20th century

Updated on Sep 17, 2024 06:58 AM IST

The silk root: The international story of Mysore silk

The Government Cocoon Market in Ramanagara on the Bangalore-Mysore highway is Asia’s largest such market. (HT)

Updated on Aug 27, 2024 05:04 AM IST

Girls getting schooled: an old Bengaluru story

The impetus towards modern institutional education for girls (and boys) in India was provided, in many ways, by the British Charter Act of 1813 (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Aug 16, 2024 05:16 AM IST

A Mysore nawab and his French Connection

Tipu Sultan (File photo)

Updated on Jul 30, 2024 07:00 AM IST

A Gujarati bride for a Mysore prince

Though in south India, the lunar month of Aashaadha is considered to be an inauspicious month for weddings, one Mumbai wedding, the month has been brilliant for hundreds of businesses big and small across the country and beyond, including Rameshwaram Cafe (File photo)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 04:02 PM IST

A yoga story for International Yoga Day

Today’s ‘postural yoga’, traditionally called Hatha Yoga, has very little to do with ancient lineage (File photo)

Updated on Jun 20, 2024 08:58 AM IST

A Canadian crop doctor in Bengaluru

Leslie Coleman lives on in Bengaluru through the annual Coleman Memorial Lecture that UAS hosts each year on June 16, his birthday (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Jun 04, 2024 07:34 AM IST

The swimming sensation of Kempambudhi Kere

Kensington Swimming Pool by the Ulsoor lake made swimming part of the city’s mainstream leisure and sporting culture (PictureArt - stock.adobe.com)

Updated on May 07, 2024 08:12 AM IST

A magnificent Mysorean and his flying machines

Srirama Venkatasubba Setty had enrolled at the engineering college at Guindy, Madras, from where he transferred to the storied Thomason College (later IIT Roorkee). (iitr.ac.in)

Updated on Apr 26, 2024 08:18 AM IST

Desperately seeking water: An old Bengaluru story

Residents of Ambedkar Nagar collect potable water from a private tanker in Bengaluru amid a severe water crisis in the city. (AP)

Updated on Mar 28, 2024 07:31 AM IST

A stadium located at (and in) the city’s heart

Royal Challengers Bangalore's batter Smriti Mandhana celebrates after scoring a half-century during the Women's Premier League 2024 cricket match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and UP Warriorz, at M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru. (PTI)

Updated on Mar 13, 2024 02:26 PM IST

The dazzling 20/20 vision of Ram Krishna Baliga

In 1954, Karnataka already accounted for 30% of India’s total electronics production. (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 29, 2024 09:00 AM IST

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