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Map illustrating how Bengaluru's lakes and wells have disappeared since 1885

Bengaluru's Vanishing Lakes: A Slow Crisis Beneath a Booming City

The city that once counted its water bodies in the thousands now struggles to protect the few hundred it has left. What happened — and what it means for a city built on sustainability.

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Cars and buses wading through flooded water on Bengaluru's Outer Ring Road tech corridor

Environment & Everyday Life

Bengaluru's Tech Corridor Keeps Flooding Because the City Paved Over Its Own Drains

Every few monsoons, the same tech corridor goes underwater — tractors and boats ferrying employees into flooded office parks. Inside the vanishing stormwater drains behind Bengaluru's floods.

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Split image of the Pavagada solar park beside a dense Bengaluru neighborhood

Technology & Sustainability

Karnataka Built One of the World's Biggest Solar Parks. Its Own Rooftops Are Still in the Dark.

Karnataka leads India in installed solar capacity, built almost entirely at utility scale. Rooftop solar on its own homes and apartments tells a very different story.

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Split scene of a littered Bengaluru street beside the same street cleaned up and planted with saplings

Social Impact

Why Every Green Campaign That Actually Works in Bengaluru Started on One Street

City-wide hoardings and observance days barely move the needle. The campaigns that actually change behavior all trace back to one street, one ward, one school. Why awareness has to start at the root.

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An overflowing BBMP garbage bin in Bengaluru with mixed wet and dry waste

Environment & Everyday Life

Bengaluru's Garbage Segregation Problem: Why Wet and Dry Waste Still End Up in the Same Bin

BBMP has mandated wet-dry waste segregation for over a decade. So why does mixed garbage still go out on collection day? Inside the city's ongoing waste segregation problem.

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A lone tree overlooking green Bengaluru on one side and a construction site clearing trees on the other

Environment

The Garden City That Lost Its Garden: Bengaluru's Vanishing Tree Cover

Bengaluru was once famous for tree cover over 60%. Researchers now put it in the single digits. What happened to the trees — and why the city feels hotter every year.

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Informal recyclers sorting discarded circuit boards and electronics on the edge of Bengaluru

Technology & Sustainability

Bengaluru's E-Waste Shadow Economy: What Happens to India's Tech Capital's Digital Trash

Bengaluru generates more e-waste than almost any other Indian city — and by most estimates, 90% of it never reaches a formal recycler. Inside the hidden trail of the city's discarded technology.

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A shrine at the base of an old tree inside a Karnataka sacred grove

Nature & Culture

The Devara Kadu: How Karnataka's Sacred Groves Have Quietly Protected Its Last Wild Forests

Centuries before conservation was a policy word, Karnataka's villages were already protecting forests through faith. Inside the Devara Kadu and the biodiversity they've quietly kept alive.

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A Bengaluru waste picker sorting recyclables by hand with the city skyline behind

Social Impact

The Hands That Keep Bengaluru Clean: Inside the Fight for Waste Pickers' Dignity

Thousands of waste pickers sort Bengaluru's trash before the city even wakes up. Inside the informal system that keeps the city running — and the fight to get it recognized.

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Climate-tech researchers working among solar panels on a Bengaluru rooftop

Technology & Innovation

Beyond the Software Boom: Inside Bengaluru's Quiet Climate-Tech Revolution

Behind India's software capital, a quieter wave of Bengaluru startups is building green hydrogen, EV powertrains, and low-carbon materials — and investors are starting to notice.

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A Karnataka farmer inspecting a millet crop, with bowls of ragi, jowar, bajra, and other millet varieties

Agriculture & Sustainability

Karnataka's Millet Revival: The Ancient Grain Farmers Are Betting On Against Drought

Facing repeated drought, thousands of Karnataka farmers are turning back to millets — a crop that uses 70% less water than rice or wheat. Inside the state's quiet agricultural comeback.

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A silhouetted figure looking through a telescope, with Bengaluru's illuminated skyline in the background

Technology & Environment

Bengaluru's Vanishing Night Sky: What India's Tech Capital Lost to Its Own Lights

India's tech capital helped build the instruments that study deep space — but its own engineers can no longer see the stars from home. Inside Bengaluru's light pollution problem.

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Residents queuing with pots and buckets at a water tanker beside a dried-up lakebed

Environment & Everyday Life

Why Does Bengaluru Run Out of Water Every Summer? The Real Story Behind the City's Water Crisis

Every summer, the same question comes up: why does a city that gets good rainfall still run dry? Inside the borewells, the tankers, and the pipeline that's supposed to fix it.

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Heavy traffic congestion on a Bengaluru road beneath the Namma Metro elevated line

Urban Life & Mobility

Why Is Bengaluru's Traffic So Bad? Inside the World's Second Most Congested City

Bengaluru commuters lose 168 hours a year to traffic — and the city is now ranked the world's second most congested. Here's why, and what's actually being tried to fix it.

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