Welcome to the OoruLabs podcast (https://podcast.oorulabs.com). Ever complained how bad our cities are? How bad your commute is? You’ll get to hear from people who are working to solve these problems. This is your weekly soapbox for Urban Sustainability with Sathya Sankaran

In this episode Udaya Kumar PL walks us through how the contemporary city was before you knew it, all documented on stones. These inscription stones can help enrich our understanding of how cities evolve and how the governed and the governors move the trajectory of how we got here and where we went. These stones tell us everything from governance, language, finance, science to astronomy.

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Inscription stones face book group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/inscriptionstones/

Map of the Inscriptions stones of Bangalore - inscripbit.ly/inscriptionblr

Inscription stones of Bangalore Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@InscriptionStonesOfBangalore/

Inscription stones of Bangalore on twitter https://twitter.com/inscriptionblr

The full Epigraphic Carnatica https://archive.org/details/epigraphiacarnat09myso

Bengaluru Itihasa Vhaibhava https://archive.org/details/bengaluru-itihaasa-vaibhava-feb-2023-vol-4

Mythic Society - https://mythicsociety.org/

Inscription stones on Thale Harate podcast - https://youtu.be/w_asY7iECxU

Hebbal Kittayya inscription - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbal-Kittayya_inscription

Race to save Bengaluru’s historic markers - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/18/romancing-the-stones-the-race-to-save-bangalore-bengaluru-historic-markers 

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Timecodes

00:00 - Intro

00:57 - Writing on stones, Who? Why? What?

06:18 - Correcting history with stones

15:07 - Local pride I: The Hebbal discovery

29:42 - Local pride II:  Kittayya’s transformation

34:24 - Discovering stones on bicycle

38:51 - Preserving inscription stones

45:29 - Telling the stories

54:02 - Connection to todays city

01:06:16 - Other cities are no better

01:09:55 - Does the government care?

01:16:12 - Using the stories in public spaces

01:24:29 - Weaving the conclusion

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