The iconic garden

EVERYONE knows Lal Bagh but much remained to be told about it. It's all here now in an anecdotal narrative.

"Lal Bagh became my favourite haunt to forage, a lab to explore and an outdoor studio to draw my first botanical drawing and paint my first landscape,” writes Suresh Jayaram, an art historian.

His book chronicles the changing scape of Lal Bagh, one of the largest lung spaces in Bengaluru, and how it has evolved over centuries.

The city that has been intrinsically linked to royal visionaries. The competence of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, the. . .

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