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Articles by Roopa Pai

Turning water into gold: A Mysore miracle

Karnataka’s strategically located hydel power stations generated a record-breaking 15,509 million units of power in the fiscal year 2025-26. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Jun 18, 2026 02:20 IST

Romancing trees: How Chipko birthed Appiko

Romancing trees: How Chipko birthed Appiko

Updated on Jun 2, 2026 01:12 IST

She means business: A historic year at FKCCI

Uma Reddy

Updated on May 19, 2026 01:02 IST

A century of royal silks: The Vijayalakshmi edit

In 1963, firmly established as Bangalore’s pre-eminent purveyors and curators of fine silks from across the country, VSL stepped out of the Pete and onto the high street. (SOURCED)

Updated on Apr 23, 2026 03:08 IST

How Mysore laid roots for a level playing field

Maharaja Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

Updated on Apr 9, 2026 24:15 IST

To Blossom City, with love: A forester’s legacy

Sethuram Gopalrao Neginhal (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

Updated on Mar 25, 2026 23:00 IST

The Merry League of Kannada Bardolators

Shakespeare was considered “an upstart crow” by the University Wits, a snobby group of accomplished Oxbridge-educated writers of the time. (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

Updated on Mar 9, 2026 23:54 IST

When IISc shepherded Mysore into modernity

IISc’s first cohort of 24 students, who joined two years after it was formally inaugurated in May 1909, had the choice of just four departments

Updated on Feb 24, 2026 02:55 IST

A Mughal mosque in the heart of Bengaluru

A minaret of the Sangeen Jama Masjid in Bengaluru (Justdial)

Updated on Feb 9, 2026 22:16 IST

The wild artistry of the Van Ingens of Mysuru

A signature Van Ingen tiger’s head mounted on a shield. (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/ R OXLEY)

Updated on Jan 20, 2026 07:48 IST

The story of Queen Victoria’s forgotten goddaughter

In 1864, just two years after she had given birth to her daughter, Edith, Gowramma succumbed to TB and was buried in London’s Brompton Cemetery. She was 22. (Princess Victoria Gouramma Portrait,(1854), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter/ Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Jan 6, 2026 06:45 IST

A Christmas toast to the original Bengaluru wine

A Christmas toast to the original Bengaluru wine

Updated on Dec 23, 2025 02:08 IST

A history of healing: St John’s Medical Hospital

The St John’s Medical College Hospital (STJOHNS.IN)

Updated on Dec 9, 2025 01:50 IST

Midas touch that made every film an occasion

Puttanna Kanagal (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

Updated on Nov 25, 2025 24:18 IST

Gandhian educator and avowed sceptic: Dr HN

Bhushan H Narasimhaiah (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

Updated on Nov 11, 2025 10:44 IST

An Activist and an Aesthete: A tribute to Kamaladevi

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 30, 2025 01:14 IST

How NBAIR walked us to food safety on six legs

In 1988, CIBC was shut, and its scientific facilities handed over to ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), an autonomous body under the government of India (NBAIR.RES.IN)

Updated on Oct 16, 2025 02:10 IST

Anything but a rambling fool: Remembering DVG

Devanahalli Venkataramanaiah Gundappa, known to his ardent fans simply as DVG. (Wikimedia commons)

Updated on Sep 30, 2025 01:46 IST

Engineering a nation: The precious legacy of HMT

Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Sir MV). (HT ARCHIVE)

Updated on Sep 16, 2025 01:13 IST

Konkani by Constitution: The legacy of BN Rau

The Constituent Assembly of India in 1946 elected a Drafting Committee headed by Dr Ambedkar, with BN Rau as Constitutional Advisor (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Aug 25, 2025 23:48 IST

Bloody but unbowed: A story of rebellion for Independence Day

In 1915, Mahatma Gandhi visited Bangalore for the first time. The effect of his visit was electric, galvanising all of present-day Karnataka into a fever of nationalism (HT archive)

Updated on Aug 12, 2025 24:46 IST

Legacy of conservation, from royals to commoners

Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar had marked off 90 sq km of forest for the Venugopala Wildlife Park (today covering a whopping 900 sq km, known as the Bandipur Tiger Reserve), as part of a conservation process that had begun three decades earlier (HT archive)

Updated on Jul 31, 2025 05:22 IST

Bengaluru’s long history of backing the right horse

This Sunday, the Zavaray S Poonawalla Bangalore Summer Derby, was won by the favourite, Fynbos, who, with this win, claimed her fourth championship (HT photo)

Updated on Jul 15, 2025 01:54 IST

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)

Updated on Jun 30, 2025 23:54 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)

Updated on Jun 17, 2025 03:48 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)

Updated on Jun 3, 2025 02:06 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)

Updated on May 20, 2025 02:36 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)

Updated on May 6, 2025 24:48 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)

Updated on Apr 22, 2025 02:40 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)

Updated on Apr 8, 2025 02:00 IST

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