Bengaluru's crumbling heritage

With new buildings tearing down old ones, Bengaluru is struggling to protect its heritage

Nikita Puri  |  Bengaluru  June 24, 2016 Last Updated at 20:29 IST

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When Mark Cubbon, the longest-serving Commissioner of the then Mysore state, became the first resident of a stately bungalow built in the 1850s, he lovingly called it Balabrooie. The structure perhaps reminded Cubbon of his hometown on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, where many homes were called Balabrooie, meaning “farm on the river bank”, TP Issar wrote in an illustrated book, The City Beautiful. Balabrooie, the official residence of the first three chief ministers of Karnataka that boasts of a classical European structure was to be razed in late 2014, despite being ...

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Bengaluru's crumbling heritage