Indian Bazaars

The first day of the Ganesha festival was Monday, the 9th of September. Today, it’s six days already since the festival began. If one were ...

There is ‘Street Space’ and there is ‘Virtual Space’ and watermelons are there both places. Some people find the time to walk the Street an...

A few days ago, I was going through the ‘Bangalore District Gazetteer’. The 'oldness' and the 'dustiness' of the Gazetteer ...

In a City, some Urban spaces are always safe, others are not. Sometimes, the urban space becomes a temporal marketplace and the city admini...

This is an interview with the owner of Srinivasa Coffee works on D.V.G.road in Basavanagudi, Bangalore. I reproduce here the story of Gandh...

In the early hours of the morning, the flower vendors at K.R.market completely fill the public spaces of the inner city in Bangalore. It is...

The resilience of the marketplace in the Indian city makes one rethink about the modes of analysis of the urban processes. If a marketplace...

There are two riddle questions that seem to come out of the fire that damaged the Russell market ten days ago. 1. What really caused the ...

It was on the morning of 25th Feb 2012 that the fire caused severe destruction at the Russell market in Bangalore. As I stood in front of t...

The Street vendors at Gandhi Bazaar were evicted on Jan 23 and it’s now three weeks since then. There is more than one reason being cited f...

Recently, we’ve have been talking to street vendors and shop owners at Russell market in Bangalore. I include below excerpts from an interv...

There are cherished memories of listening to Dashrath Patel whenever he talked about the world that he discovered every day through the phot...