Arnav is a correspondent at the Bengaluru bureau of The Indian Express. He covers matters relating to the Karnataka High Court as well as general feature stories pertaining to the history of the city, literature, and occasionally forays into sports. When not on the job, he can usually be found feeding his pet fish and snails. He tweets @arnavchandrase1

December 09, 2024 19:01 IST
Poile Sengupta is also an award-winning playwright, with nationally recognised scripts such as Mangalam, which won the Hindu-Madras Players Playscripts Competition in 1993
Mon, Dec 09, 2024
November 25, 2024 20:07 IST
Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s latest novel, Interstellar Megachef, features a human participating in a pan-galactic cooking show.
Mon, Nov 25, 2024
November 18, 2024 20:49 IST
Characteristics such as wetlands, dry areas and orchards were mentioned in stones that recorded land donations made hundreds of years ago.
Mon, Nov 18, 2024
November 11, 2024 20:29 IST
P S Nissim’s second novella, Pillar of the King, which came out this year, has a distinct Karnataka flavour to it.
Tue, Nov 12, 2024
November 04, 2024 13:55 IST
Nagattara was a warrior and local chieftain of the area around Begur in modern-day Bangalore.
Mon, Nov 04, 2024
October 29, 2024 20:25 IST
The case in question had been filed by Sunitha Chavan, wife of ex-JDS MLA Devanand Chavan.
Tue, Oct 29, 2024
October 27, 2024 21:27 IST
Pai thinks of Bengaluru as a “liberal, accepting, largehearted melting pot”, with the recent online trends about the city being unwelcoming an anomaly in the 50 years and more she has resided in it
Mon, Nov 11, 2024
October 21, 2024 19:16 IST
Among the rich tapestry of institutions that have witnessed Bengaluru’s evolution, Bishop Cotton stands out as a prime example.
Mon, Oct 21, 2024
October 14, 2024 21:16 IST
Kirtana Kumar has also experimented with the forms of the stories. Her piece, “Twelve Faits Divers”, exists in the form of what appears to be newspaper excerpts.
Mon, Oct 14, 2024
October 02, 2024 10:09 IST
“We’re incredibly excited about performing in India for the first time,” said Enigma’s Andru Donalds.
Wed, Oct 02, 2024
September 30, 2024 12:10 IST
Aditya Sondhi’s latest book ‘Poles Apart’ is a dissection of the evolution of how the military interacted with growing democracy over the years in India and Pakistan.
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
September 16, 2024 12:33 IST
Lords of the Deccan was published after two years of research and writing, and another two years of editing and fact-checking, says Anirudh Kanisetti.
Tue, Sep 17, 2024
September 02, 2024 10:13 IST
For Harini Nagendra, the author of The Bangalore Detectives Club series, Bengaluru has been an inspiration for her fiction as well as non-fiction books.
Mon, Sep 02, 2024
August 26, 2024 13:43 IST
Karnataka Science and Technology Minister N S Boseraju inaugurated Sci560 at Science Gallery Bengaluru on August 24.
Mon, Aug 26, 2024
August 26, 2024 13:21 IST
The collection, assembled over three months and spanning 12 languages, includes Mahatma Gandhi’s collected works, publications such as Harijan and Young India and audio recordings.
Mon, Aug 26, 2024
August 25, 2024 17:47 IST
In his first visit to Bengaluru in 1915, Mahatma Gandhi was invited by prominent Kannada writer D V Gundappa to participate in a meeting in honour of the late Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
Mon, Aug 26, 2024
August 19, 2024 10:45 IST
Although not all of Vivek Shanbhag's works are set in the city, Ghachar Ghochar has Bengaluru as its backdrop.
Mon, Aug 19, 2024
August 04, 2024 21:49 IST
“Take a walk in your own neighbourhood and look at it with a writer’s eye. There is no need to go far for inspiration here, our city is great and there are millions of things in it that nobody ever thought of writing about…” Zac O’Yeah tells young writers of Bengaluru
Sun, Aug 04, 2024
July 14, 2024 14:57 IST
While public-private partnerships are now common, this railway was perhaps one of the earliest examples of such partnership, having been completed in 1918 in association with the Mysore State Railway.
Sun, Jul 21, 2024
July 06, 2024 13:26 IST
Navroze Contractor, originally from Ahmedabad, had been living in Bengaluru for the past few decades before he died in accident last year.
Sat, Jul 06, 2024
June 30, 2024 21:38 IST
For instance, one poster helps visitors trace the dynasty from the late Hoysala era to the end of the dynasty, which had eventually been pushed out of Bengaluru to Magadi.
Tue, Jul 02, 2024
June 02, 2024 22:46 IST
Lavelle, hailing from County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, had served in the storied 43rd Monmouthshire Regiment
Wed, Jun 05, 2024
May 26, 2024 15:15 IST
The Cantonment station in Bangalore was established in 1864, barely a decade after the first railway line in India, connecting Bombay and Thane, was completed in 1853.
Sun, May 26, 2024
May 24, 2024 14:40 IST
Reddy’s latest concert ‘Bangalore 1974’ will be held at the Bangalore International Centre on May 29; it comes after two concerts at the International Centre and Whitefield, titled ‘The Guitar Book of Revelations’.
Fri, May 24, 2024
May 14, 2024 11:16 IST
Chetan Shivram, the 2019 Indian National Rally champion, organised the autocross event at Gunjur in which dozens of off-road racers participated.
Thu, May 16, 2024




