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4 days, 18 hours ago

Bengaluru Metro eyeing expansion to Hoskote, Nelamangala, Bidadi: DK Shivakumar

To address Bengaluru’s growing traffic issues, the Karnataka government is considering extending the Bengaluru Metro Rail network to Hoskote, Nelamangala, and Bidadi, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar announced on Wednesday. Speaking in the Karnataka Assembly in Belagavi, Shivakumar responded to a query from MLA Sharath Bache Gowda regarding severe congestion on the Old Madras Road between KR Puram and Hoskote. …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Gieve Patel and the art of friendship

New Indian Express

Patel’s love for the natural world, and his looking at the fact of mortality through it came up several times during the evening. ” An art of courage An art of understatement, an opinion of extremes – such was the clay that formed Gieve Patel’s life and his art, said his friends. “‘There are only 15 artists or poets worth …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mir: A Symphony of Pain and Hope

Hindustan Times

A Bayaz is the personal diary of an Urdu poetry aficionado, who notes the select shers or verses they like as they listen to full poems, most often in the ghazal form, at Urdu mushairas or poetry gatherings. The book is a deeply personal selection, for which the title of the volume gives us a good insight.

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3 months, 1 week ago

Sumadhura Group leases 1.8-lakh sq ft warehousing space to Nippon Express in Bengaluru

Hindustan Times

Real estate developer Sumadhura Group has leased a 1.8 lakh-square feet warehousing space for nine years to global logistics company NX Logistics India at Sumadhura Logistics Park in Bengaluru, the company said in a statement on September 12. Sumadhura Group leases 1.8-lakh sq ft warehousing space to Nippon Express in Bengaluru The facility is a part of the first phase …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Ranjit Hoskote: “Mir is very much our contemporary – a wounded sensibility”

Hindustan Times

What circumstances enabled the publication of this book now? In my introduction, I argue that Mir’s poetry – and indeed his language – was richly nourished by his multilingualism. A number of the poems in my selection demonstrate Mir’s linguistic diversity – especially poems in which he deliberately sets up a collision between elegant Persian forms and robust Khari Boli …

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3 months, 1 week ago

BCD Group to lease 900 apartments to Apple iPhone maker Foxconn in Bengaluru housing project

Hindustan Times

Real estate major BCD Group is preparing to lease out 900 apartments to global tech giant Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn for a three-year period in a township project located in Bengaluru’s Hoskote town, sources in knowledge of the matter told HT.com. BCD Group is preparing to lease 900 apartments to Apple iPhone maker Foxconn in Bengaluru township project The residential …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Hoskote man murders stranger in Hassan; projects it as death to claim insurance

The Hindu

Hassan Police have cracked a murder case in which a businessman from Hoskote, facing the burden of a loan, allegedly murdered an unknown person and projected it as his death to claim the insurance amount. Gandasi police in Hassan district arrested M. Muniswamy Gowda, 49, of Hoskote in Bengaluru Rural District, and Devendra Nayak, 36, of Lakkavalli hobli in Chikkamagaluru …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

How Ranjit Hoskote’s Essays on Gieve Patel Reflect the Pitfalls of Overanalysing Art and Straying from its Core.

The Hindu

Published : Jun 26, 2024 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ You are looking at a painting, say Gieve Patel’s Crows With A Debris —two crows are pecking at the remains of an animal flattened and decapitated by the tyre of a car or bike; the tyre mark is embossed on the grey surface of the tarred road, the grooves …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka’s heat and drought wilt vegetable cultivation

The Hindu

Patches of green followed by patches of brown dominate the scene through the villages of Hoskote taluk, a major horticultural crop supplier to Bengaluru, situated roughly 35 kilometres from the city centre. While drought has hit the drinking water supply to Bengaluru, the dry season affecting the horticulture belt around the city has burnt a hole in the pockets of …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

NHAI increases toll rates on key highways in Karnataka, including Bengaluru-Mysuru

The Hindu

Starting April 1, as part of its annual revision, the National Highways Authority of India has raised toll rates on the access-controlled Bengaluru-Mysuru and Bengaluru-Hyderabad highways, and on the Hoskote-Devanahalli section of the Bengaluru Satellite Town Ring Road. Light commercial vehicles, light goods vehicles, and minibuses will now pay ₹275 for a single journey and ₹415 for a return journey, …

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11 months ago

An evening of tributes to Gieve Patel

Hindustan Times

On the evening of January 19, the Experimental Theatre at the National Centre for Performing Arts hosted a spirited celebration of poetry, art and theatre to pay homage to Gieve Patel, the polymath who passed away at the age of 83 in November 2023. Patel’s daughter, Avaan, who is a theatre director and actor, says, “Arundhathi has known my father, …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Critique or bias? The debate cleaving the art world

Live Mint

Art has always been political. Mumbai-based curator and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote says the Israel-Hamas conflict has caused a great division, largely in the European art world, but with consequences everywhere, including the Global South. Poet Rachel Spence, in an article in The Wire wrote: “For Documenta to accuse committee member Ranjit Hoskote, the most sensitive of thinkers, of anti-Semitism …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Karnataka: One woman dead, 135 others hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning

India TV News

An elderly woman died and 135 others were hospitalised in a suspected case of food poisoning in Hoskote in Bengaluru Rural limits, the police said on Monday. “As of now, it is suspected to be a case of food poisoning, but since the investigation is in the initial stage, the exact cause cannot be ascertained at present,” they said. “A …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Book Review: Ranjit Hoskote’s poetry collection ‘Icelight’ is a deeply felt reflection on the ecological crisis

The Hindu

Published : Oct 05, 2023 11:00 IST - 4 MINS READ In Icelight, Ranjit Hoskote thinks by way of the heart, which is, of course, how good poetry is made. Icelight By Ranjit Hoskote Penguin Hamish Hamilton Pages: 128 Price: Rs.399 What does it mean to be human at a time when the world as we know it is ending, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Peeling away the layers poetry book review of Ranjit Hoskote’s new collection ‘Icelight’

The Hindu

Ranjit Hoskote is at a moment of reckoning. Divided into six passages that broach the life endangered, Icelight doesn’t shy away from peeling the surface layers of things — be it a nation’s moral fulcrum, the threatened wails and concurrently proud stance of the ecological world, or Hoskote’s own meditations on loss — the loss of family, the relinquishment of …

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1 year, 3 months ago

A farewell note to Jayanta Mahapatra

Hindustan Times

I never got to meet Jayanta Mahapatra, and am a little cut up about it. “Mahapatra’s death on Sunday has left the community of Indian poets writing in English both sobered by grief at his passing and rejoicing in his long life, astoundingly rich and prolific writing, and his warm, congenial encouragement of younger poets.” Losing a beloved artist is …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Tough path ahead for Peripheral Ring Road project in Bengaluru

The Hindu

The floating of a global tender for the Peripheral Ring Road project by the Bangalore Development Authority has made Ponnappa B.C., a retired government employee, very anxious. After causing all kinds of hardships, now after a gap of 17 to 18 years, the BDA wants to take up the project again but at what cost?” Some of the farmers who …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Is this the big moment for Indian writing in translation?

Live Mint

On 26 May, the International Booker Prize will be announced—and it could well go to Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel Ret-Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand. Among the more prominent efforts are Kannada writer Vivek Shanbhag’s 2013 novella, Ghachar Ghochar, translated into English by Srinath Perur in 2015, and One Part Woman, the 2010 Tamil novel …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Poet Ranjit Hoskote: I'm fascinated by how art produces possibility of a world aslant

Firstpost

“The activity of writing poetry might be solitary, but it is supported by a community – even a family – of fellow writers and readers, says Ranjit Hoskote, who was honoured with the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Poetry Award at the Jaipur Literature Festival. My writerly process is deeply sustained, also, by ongoing conversations with fellow poets whom I trust deeply, …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Ranjit Hoskote: We're Pushed By Our Deplorable Education System To Make A Choice Between Science and Arts

News 18

I don’t know what Bombay poet means. I have no patience for that,” says poet Ranjit Hoskote on the various tags that artistes get assigned. Hoskote, who is in Jaipur for this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival, was announced as the winner of the 7th Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Poetry Award 2022. Ambedkar’s prose has a robust character to it, a sign …

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3 years, 4 months ago

A new show that highlights the many shades of artist Mehlli Gobhai

Live Mint

Colour, in all its shades and forms, can be seen at Chemould Prescott Road these days. Though one always knew of artist Mehlli Gobhai as an abstractionist par excellence, but when one sees a range of works from his 70-year-long career, the power of his paintings hits anew. In The Prism of Darkness: Mehlli Gobhai, Works from the Early 1980s, …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Meena Kandasamy reviews Ranjit Hoskote’s ‘Hunchprose’

The Hindu

What is poetry’s place while a deadly pandemic rages on: do we read it as a prayer or a lament? Days before the second wave hit, I got a copy of Hunchprose, Ranjit Hoskote’s slim, dazzling collection of poetry. Drowning voices Seeking an entry point that will pin down the emotional blanket of this book, I want to begin with …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Interview with Ranjit Hoskote, author, Hunchprose

Hindustan Times

224pp, ₹499; India Hamish Hamilton Which poets have you been reading during the pandemic? In manuscript form, I read Sampurna Chattarji’s translation of Joy Goswami’s prose poems, After Death Comes Water, and in the form of an advance copy, I read Tishani Doshi’s forthcoming A God at the Door. I worked on Hunchprose at white heat, from March 2019 to …

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3 years, 8 months ago

For the India Art Fair, a fresh palette with new director Jaya Asokan

Hindustan Times

If you’re not prepared, the India Art Fair can be chaos. “Jagpal infused the fair with a renewed sense of purpose,” says Ranjit Hoskote, art critic, cultural theorist and poet. Minal Vazirani, co-founder of the online art and antiquities auction house Saffronart, recalls when Asokan started out in India’s art world, managing client relations for Saffronart in 2006. “I imagine …

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Bengaluru Metro eyeing expansion to Hoskote, Nelamangala, Bidadi: DK Shivakumar

Gieve Patel and the art of friendship

Mir: A Symphony of Pain and Hope

Sumadhura Group leases 1.8-lakh sq ft warehousing space to Nippon Express in Bengaluru

Ranjit Hoskote: “Mir is very much our contemporary – a wounded sensibility”

BCD Group to lease 900 apartments to Apple iPhone maker Foxconn in Bengaluru housing project

Hoskote man murders stranger in Hassan; projects it as death to claim insurance

How Ranjit Hoskote’s Essays on Gieve Patel Reflect the Pitfalls of Overanalysing Art and Straying from its Core.

Karnataka’s heat and drought wilt vegetable cultivation

NHAI increases toll rates on key highways in Karnataka, including Bengaluru-Mysuru

An evening of tributes to Gieve Patel

Critique or bias? The debate cleaving the art world

Karnataka: One woman dead, 135 others hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning

Book Review: Ranjit Hoskote’s poetry collection ‘Icelight’ is a deeply felt reflection on the ecological crisis

Peeling away the layers poetry book review of Ranjit Hoskote’s new collection ‘Icelight’

A farewell note to Jayanta Mahapatra

Tough path ahead for Peripheral Ring Road project in Bengaluru

Is this the big moment for Indian writing in translation?

Poet Ranjit Hoskote: I'm fascinated by how art produces possibility of a world aslant

Ranjit Hoskote: We're Pushed By Our Deplorable Education System To Make A Choice Between Science and Arts

A new show that highlights the many shades of artist Mehlli Gobhai

Meena Kandasamy reviews Ranjit Hoskote’s ‘Hunchprose’

Interview with Ranjit Hoskote, author, Hunchprose

For the India Art Fair, a fresh palette with new director Jaya Asokan