Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh was on Tuesday shot dead at her residence in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru. She edited Kannada tabloid ‘Lankesh Patrike’ besides owning some other publications. Gauri, aged 55, had returned home in her car and was opening the gate when motorcycle-borne assailants fired at her indiscriminately with two bullets hitting her in the chest and one on her forehead. She died instantaneously. Four bullets hit the compound […]

Can you believe that Bengaluru was a rocky, barren plateau just 250 years ago? Since then, thanks to the efforts of first the Tigers of Mysore, and then botanists and horticulture authorities, Bengaluru has managed to become home to one of the greatest collection of trees from around the world. This is the story Vijay Thiruvady, a Koramangala-resident and Trustee at the Bangalore Environment Trust (BET), tells in his beautiful […]

It is not very often that you find people who adopt stray dogs in our everyday life. There might be people who buy expensive dogs and go for dog training Chico Ridgeside K9 NorCal. With some bizarre festivals like ‘Yulin’ in China and a lot of abuse against dogs around the world, here is a heartwarming story of a software engineer from Bengaluru who went on to give shelter to […]

What does a water tanker driver do? Presumably, the obvious answer is that he transports water. 99% of the time, that would be right. However, this water tanker driver from Bengaluru had a relentless dedication towards his passion for bodybuilding and achieved an almost insurmountable feat. G. Balakrishna, a tanker driver from Bengaluru, just earned the title of Mr Asia 2016 in the Philippines. This was a culminating achievement in […]

In the last eight years, 58 manual scavengers have died on duty. Within five months of getting married and a little over a year after Venkatramana took up manual scavenging, he became a statistic. Twenty-four-year-old Venkatramana, a Dalit, died of asphyxiation on October 18 after entering sewage treatment plant in Shantinivas Apartment near Yeshwantpur Railway station in Bengaluru. Manjunath, a Veerashaiva, who entered the septic tank along with Venkatramana, died […]