Bengaluru is flexing its cultural muscle

Bengaluru is flexing its cultural muscle

Bengaluru is a shapeshifter. Over its 400-odd years of modern history, it has been able to thread many stories. Under its founder Kempe Gowda I, it wore the moniker of ‘Gandu Bhoomi’ or ‘Land of Heroes’. Since then, it has been christened as Pensioners’ Paradise, Garden City, Pub City, Science City, India’s Silicon Valley, Beantown, […]

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The digital exhibition PSYCHE explores the complexities of the human mind

The digital exhibition PSYCHE explores the complexities of the human mind

A digital exhibition in Bengaluru examines the human mind and the worlds of philosophers, neuroscientists and cultural theorists A digital exhibition in Bengaluru examines the human mind and the worlds of philosophers, neuroscientists and cultural theorists I gaze at an unusual South Asia map: it is a ragged dull-yellow chart from 1921 that estimates the […]

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