Indian Bazaars

I had been walking in Chickpete for some time now. It was nearing lunch time and I had unknowingly started to read the nameboards at just a...

Every marketplace in India is an aesthetic urban experience – whether it’s a flower market, a wholesale tomato market or a temple bazaar. I...

The Groundnut (Peanut) Fair, colloquially called the Kadalekai Parishe takes place once a year at Basavanagudi, in close proximity to Gand...

I had a printout of the google map of Chickpete that I studied quickly before I set out. It looked like I could start at the K.R.market and...

You are walking along a Street Bazaar absorbed in looking at the busy sweet-meat stall where you know you shouldn’t go but where your hear...

The Bazaars in India are spaces for everyday but they are also places where vendors express themselves through their creative displays, ...

The changing nature of the spaces and the displays in a Street bazaar in India makes it a complex phenomenon that differs from formal retail...

When we first moved to Bangalore three years ago, we were quite awed by the malls and the glass facade IT buildings lining the road where ...

It was Diwali last week and bazaars all over the city of Bangalore and everywhere in the country were “places” to experience the sanctity an...