Saint-composer Purandara Dasa composed this song in the Aprameya temple at Malur, a village on the Bangalore-Mysore Highway, a few kilometres from Channapatna. You can easily spot the village because of its yellow gopura that towers over the landscape.

BANGALORE: Channapatna craft is associated with dolls — little surprise that the place, located 60km South-West of Bangalore is famously called Gombegala-ooru or toy-town. Media regularly reports on how the families no longer encourage the next ...

More than 150 students and rural businesspeople collaborated to fashion specialized business models to boost businesses, like toy makers in Channapatna who are in dire need of a good marketing plan. According to Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Assistant Professor at ...

Supported by silk, sandal, Channapatna toys and the Lal Bagh as props, Girish Karnad manages to take people into the future through the ethereal medium of one man's dreams. There is no dearth of scholarly works, ballads, plays and novels on the ...