Multiple City by De, Aditi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Dedication Introduction : First Person Singular: In Search of a City Multiple City

PART I: ONCE UPON A CITY

The Ballad of Kempe Gowda A City Yet Unborn The Town of Boiled Beans The Battle for Bangalore From Garden City to Tota? Ramakant in the City City for a Song

PART II: COFFEE BREAK 1

PART III: THE CITIES WITHIN

New Shoots and Old Roots Directions Ooru and the World Mall Miscalculations Bangalore: A Short Story My Friend, Mani Reworking Masculinities: Rajkumar and the Kannada Public Sphere Mapping Bangalore Romance of the Cantonment The Serious Purpose of Life Follow My Bangalorey Man: Traditional: Nursery Rhyme A Rose Petal Life Oh, Come to Gandhibazar! Turning Crimson at Premier’s The Karaga Festival: A Performative Archive of an Alternative Urban Ecology: Smriti Srinivas Gopalaswamy Iyer Hostel Corners and Other Childhood Spaces Majestic: The Place of Constant Return

PART IV: COFFEE BREAK 2

City Cartoons

PART V: CITY SCAN

Meditation on Postal Colony Through the Mahatma’s Eyes The Wholly Raman Empire: Bangalore’s: Emergence as a Centre of Science In Search of the Star of David Notes from Another India Do the Needful Sthala Puranagalu: Place Legends Macbeth at Bangalore University The Sound of Two Hands Clapping Temples of Food A Dream of a Theatre On the Street, Everybody Watches Veena Tapaswi Doreswamy Iyengar Finger-lickin’ Bad Back to the Future

PART VI: COFFEE BREAK 3

PART VII: THE 24/7 CITY

Nanolore Brand Bangalore: Emblem of Globalizing India The World Is Flat Dancing on Glass Call Centres Call On I Dream of Bangalore Bit by Byte: Sham Banerji Metroblogging: Anita Bora

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