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Bangalore Open Air is India’s premier hard rock and heavy metal music festival. It started in 2012 and has featured bands like Mayhem, Iced Earth, and Napalm Death. I attended in 2023, and in this guide you’ll find everything you need to know about attending the festival for the first time. What is the Bangalore […]
Many of the locations from Gregory David Robert’s classic Indian underworld story Shantaram (2003) are real and still standing in Colaba, South Mumbai. I went out to find the exact locations of Shantaram’s most iconic locations like Leopold’s, the slum Lin Baba lived in, the very first hotel he stayed at, and even where he […]
KalaaKaarts is a blend of experiential activities, and artistic exhibitions, as the name itself, is a blend of an artist and their art, “Kalaakaar” (कलाकार) – an Artist and “arts” – the Art. It is a platform that was established for exhibiting and selling Narendra Panchal’s artwork, which emerged out to be a platform that now […]
The last two weeks have been crazy and surreal. My videos were already doing great on YouTube, but then “bass-” posted my Foreigner Surprising Indians with Hindi video on the /r/videos subreddit and the madness began! That Reddit post started a chain reaction, and I ended up going viral, hitting the top of /r/videos with […]
A great song and its melody are universal. You don’t need to understand the words to enjoy them. You just listen to the music and enjoy. When you’re in India, there are a ton of amazing artists you need to check out live. Below are just 6 of my favourite artists that I’ve seen live. […]
Bollywood. That’s what I and billions of other Indians grew up watching. When you first begin to watch Bollywood, you’ll surely be confused. Always remember that the criteria of a movie turning a blockbuster in India is quite different than that of Hollywood and many other countries. But now, with the gradual change in outlook […]
Over the past decade or so, there have been many changes in the film industry. One cannot help but notice that this industry is finally taking up an international approach rather than being confined to one’s own country. Given this, many English movies have used India as their primary location for shooting. Sometimes, the entire […]
Although Hollywood is the greatest movie industry in the world, Bollywood seems to be quickly catching up. There have been numerous Hindi remakes of Hollywood movies but do you know that the vice-versa also happens? Certain English movies have taken inspiration from Bollywood or South Indian films. This is not a surprising fact since many […]
India has always contributed abundantly to literature. Ancient Vedas and epics are still read worldwide. After the colonial period, many international writers began to write about fictional or real accounts with India as their background. These novels were bestsellers. Now, many books written by Indian authors for international audiences are being published, and this has […]