The Kodava community will celebrate Puthari, the harvest festival that holds cultural and spiritual significance for the community, on Saturday, December 14. Puthari, which means “new rice” in Kodava language, is a thanksgiving festival that celebrates the rice harvest, symbolising abundance and prosperity. At the Kodava Samaja in Vasanth Nagar, members gather every year to symbolically harvest paddy grown on …
On October 7th this year, the city’s birdwatchers will come together to celebrate Bengaluru Bird Day, the 9th edition of this annual event that was kickstarted in 2014 to remember noted birdwatcher, Dr. Joseph George. A pioneer of group birdwatching activities, Dr. George began an informal bird-watching group in Bengaluru in 1972, playing a vital role in popularising the practice …
Even as hectic parleys were on in New Delhi within the Congress central leadership to choose new Chief Minister for Karnataka, there were celebrations in the native village of Siddaramaiah and outside his Bengaluru residence on Wednesday amid reports in a section of the media that claimed that his name has been finalised for the post. READ | Karnataka CM …