9 articles
A Seinfeld bit at the Chicago Theatre, and the Indian American families who learned Halloween from their children, then took it to Bangalore.
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Bangalore traded the Garden City for India's Silicon Valley — and got neither. Traffic, lost green cover, priced-out identity: the cost of the IT bet.
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An anonymous Bangalore group called The Ugly Indian rejected blame and started spotfixing dirty streets. A TI essay on civic responsibility, from the archives.
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After the July 2014 rape of a 6-year-old at a Bangalore school, police booked more than 180 schools for failing to implement child-safety guidelines.
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In November 2013, a woman was brutally attacked inside a Bangalore ATM at 7:30 AM — caught on CCTV. The footage sparked a national debate on safety.
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A student of the National Law School of India University was sexually assaulted on campus in October 2012, sparking protests over safety at Indian universities.
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For a third day, Northeasterners fled southern Indian cities over feared reprisals for Assam's ethnic violence — despite leaders' appeals for calm.
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After the August 2012 panic exodus, the first special trains from Bangalore reached Guwahati — and many Northeasterners said they would return.
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At 14, Suhas Gopinath founded Globals Inc from a Bangalore cyber cafe. A decade on: a multinational IT firm, a World Bank roundtable, and a WEF honor.
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