‘16% of creative sector facing permanent closure’
Staff Reporter
Many adapting to digital, live business models, but some of the workforce is changing careers: report
Life & Style
Married under a tree: a Bengaluru couple’s dream wedding
Shilpa Nair Anand The couple exchanged wedding vows beneath a ‘honge’ tree, in the backyard of their home
Chennai
Composting at home finds renewed interest as kitchen gardens grow common in 2020
Sweta Akundi With a rise in terrace gardening, zero-kitchen-waste advocates are excited to note a parallel rise in people making their own compost and fertilisers at home
Homes and gardens
A retirement community project in Coimbatore revisits traditional architecture designs
K Jeshi A retirement community project in the city revisits traditional architecture designs using sunlight as a natural disinfectant
Veerappan returns to dominate public imagination
K.V. Aditya BharadwajThe brigand is the subject of a new web series and an academic book
Rakshit Shetty: Dream big, follow your passion, and work hard towards fulfilling it
Staff ReporterThe actor urges students to consider their interest while mapping out their career path and calls upon them to take failures positively
Pandemic fallout: Bengaluru musicians, DJs are taking to online platforms, but there is uncertainty in the air
Aparna NarrainThey say experience is not the same for either artistes or audience; monetisation of performances a big challenge
Bengaluru
Amid lockdown, Rangashankara goes online
Staff Reporter Theatre, a spectator art performance, has been facing an existential crisis in times of social distancing following the COVID-19 pandemic. In Bengaluru, the theatre space, Rangashankara, has reinvented itself and is trying to reach out to the theatre community and its audience, online. As part of the initiative, more than 20 actors, directors, playwrights and thespians from language theatres across the country have performed monologues from their favourite theatre texts for the camera and shared
Entertainment
Relief fund to be set up for those hit in Kannada entertainment industry
Staff Reporter The Karnataka Film Workers, Artists and Technicians’ Federation is set to establish a relief fund for daily wage earners
Movies
BIFFes: ‘I have watched Sholay 500 times,’ says Iranian filmmaker Shahed Ahmadlou
Praveen Sudevan The 'Cinema Donkey' director says that Ramesh Sippy’s curry western spurred him to make movies
Football
Sports Bureau Scores twice in three minutes to help the side share honours with Bengaluru FC
Other Sports
BTC’s winter racing season from November 1
After a long hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bangalore Turf Club (BTC) witnesses a return to action with the start of the winter racing season on Sunday, BTC announced here. A total prize money of ₹1,31,56,799 is on offer for the five race days (November 1, 7, 14, 21 and 28).The BTC will announce the conventions for the online betting mechanism soon. In accordance with government rules, members of the general public will not be permitted to attend the races.All government-mandated
Football
Former India captain Chapman passes away
Sports Reporter Led the country to the SAFF championship in 1997
Life & Style
Married under a tree: a Bengaluru couple’s dream wedding
Shilpa Nair Anand The couple exchanged wedding vows beneath a ‘honge’ tree, in the backyard of their home
Bengaluru
Gyms remain empty in Bengaluru while maintenance costs surge
Praveen Sudevan On an average, daily footfall has plummeted from 300 to 20
Technology
‘The Ramayana’ for the tech-savvy generation
Neeraja Murthy Offering a detailed virtual museum tour, the app TheRamayana.com, is a modern way to explore the epic