S2 E74: How Bengaluru was formed and why the city has a water crisis

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 partsPart 1: How the settlements were formed from 1000 - 1500 ADPart 2: Formation of mod...