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Book review: Becoming Bangalore by Roopa Pai

BECOMING BANGALORE, Hachette Books is the most delightful chronicling of a city ever. It`s a compendium of essays from Roopa Pai`s ongoing newspaper column  on Bangalore; compact, engaging, insightful 600-word passages that pack in much information to  both educate and entertain the reader. Things I learned after reading the book: *Why Bangalore`s trees bloom in…

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Book review: Cubbon Park by Roopa Pai

Cubbon Park The Green Heart of Bengaluru by Roopa Pai, Speaking Tiger Books. A neat, potted history of the 152-year-old park that is both geographically central to Bangalore and emotionally central to Bangaloreans. Pai eschews frills and furbelows to take up certain sections of the park`s history and lived-in present, the people and situations that…

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