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THE CITY 24/7 WEEKLY · ISSUE 01

We're Live, Bengaluru! Happy Rajyotsava and a Bright Deepavali Ahead

Friday, 6 November 2026
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK

Namaskara, Bengaluru!

The City 24/7 is officially live, and you're reading our very first newsletter. Thank you for being here this early. Genuinely.

Here's the thing, though. Going live was the easy part. The real journey starts now: bringing every bit of this city into your inbox. The food, the people, the shortcuts, the chaos, the quiet corners and the places you keep meaning to try. Every Friday morning, without fail.

So grab your coffee (filter, obviously) and let's get into it.

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Happy Karnataka Rajyotsava!

On 1 November, Karnataka turned 70: the state was formed on 1 November 1956, and the red and yellow flags were out across Bengaluru all weekend. It was also the day The City 24/7 went live, which we're choosing to take as a very good sign. Siri Gannada Gelge!

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Wishing You a Very Happy Deepavali

The festival of lights is here this weekend: Naraka Chaturdashi on Sunday, 8 November, Lakshmi Puja on Monday, 9 November, and Balipadyami on Tuesday, 10 November. Light the lamps, eat one sweet too many, and remember the rule: green crackers only, and only between 8pm and 10pm. Your neighbour's dog will thank you.

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D V Gundappa Bangalore: the old Basavanagudi street and Bugle Rock Park area where DVG lived, wrote Mankuthimmana Kagga and founded the Gokhale Institute D. V. Gundappa: The Matric Dropout Who Wrote Bengaluru's Favourite Book of Wisdom He failed his exams, worked in a soda factory, then became the journalist, poet and philosopher whose Mankuthimmana Kagga every Kannadiga grandparent can quote. Meet DVG of Basavanagudi. Tariq Sallam, founder of The City 24/7, Bangalore Who Am I? Just a Mallu Boy Trying to Find His Way in Namma Bengaluru Kuwait schoolboy, BMS engineer, dotcom developer, door-to-door publisher, real estate agent, a 100-acre fall and the slow climb back. The story behind The City 24/7. An executive desk at dusk with leather-bound books, a laptop, a coffee cup and architectural sketches, overlooking lit office towers Jerry Rao: The Bangalore Boy Who Quit Citibank and Built Mphasis Twenty years in global banking, then a software company that now calls Bengaluru home, then affordable housing. A fanned stack of colourful city magazines on a café table beside a steel filter coffee set, a pager and a cassette Walkman with headphones, with a tree-lined street outside Ramjee Chandran: The Man Who Gave Bangalore Its First Free Magazine A city guide nobody thought would work, a company called Explocity, and a podcast that digs up the city's past. A startup office at night with a whiteboard of sticky notes, laptops on a long table and a city skyline outside Aprameya Radhakrishna: The Bengaluru Founder Who Keeps Starting Again A cab app dreamed up in a Bengaluru pub, a sale to Ola, and a homegrown social network that rose and shut down. A writer's desk with a vintage typewriter, stacks of old newspapers, a hardback book, a fountain pen and a green banker's lamp, beside an open window onto a tiled roof and a large tree T J S George: The Editor Who Wrote Bangalore's Biography at 88 First editor jailed in independent India, founder of Asiaweek, and the man who explained Bangalore to itself in Askew. A woman addressing residents seated beneath a banyan tree at dusk, with lanterns and city homes behind Anita Reddy: The Woman Who Held Slum Meetings in Bangalore's Graveyards She walked into Lakshmipuram slum in 1978 and spent the next four decades helping families keep and rebuild their homes. A director's chair holding a script, a compass and a scale ruler in the seats of an empty theatre, facing a lit stage set with a table, chairs and a bookshelf Prakash Belawadi: The UVCE Engineer Who Chose Bangalore's Stage Born into a Bangalore theatre family, he trained as an engineer and then did everything else: stage, film, teaching and civic activism. Starting blocks on an empty red running track in a stadium at sunset Ashwini Nachappa: The Bangalore Sprinter Who Outran P T Usha Twice She learned to run beside Kanteerava Stadium for a sweet per lap, and grew into India's FloJo. A sunlit forest trail under a huge old tree with a sapling in a terracotta pot and a watering can beside it, with birds flying over the city skyline in the distance A N Yellappa Reddy: The Adugodi Boy Who Grew Bangalore a Forest He talked a minister out of a hospital and into a forest, helped write the tree laws, and is still turning up for cleanups.
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That's it for our first week. Thank you for reading, and if a friend would enjoy this, forward it their way.

See you next Friday.

Same city, new stories, always. Tariq Sallam, Founder, The City 24/7
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