S2 E74: History of Bengaluru and why it has a water crisis What's new today

This episode captures the history of Bengaluru from over a 1000 years ago. Small settlements created fertile pastures in an otherwise arid region. The ingenuity they used to build a series of lakes and tanks is to be much admired. This is all the more evident in the backdrop of how we squandered centuries of efforts and destroyed all of it in less than 50 years. The story of Bengaluru is narrated in three parts
Part 1: How the settlements were formed from 1000 - 1500 AD
Part 2: Formation of modern Bengaluru by Kempe Gowda ~1500 AD
Part 3: British settlement post 1800 till modern times

Pioneers who are restoring lakes in Bengaluru
a) Anand Malligavad - Click here to reach out to him
b) Harsha Tej - Click here to reach out to him
c) Usha Rajagopalan - Click here to read about her pioneering work

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