FIGHT FOR VENKATAPPA ART GALLERY: WHY CHALLENGES OVER ITS PROPOSED RECEPTION HAVE PROFOUNDLY SEPARATED BENGALURU - NEWS OF INDIA

The Tasveer Foundation's proposed reception of Bengaluru's eminent Venkatappa Art Gallery (VAG) has snowballed into a contention, with the city's intellectual elite winding up on contradicting sides of the level headed discussion. 

On one side is a gathering of 300 or so specialists, scholars and theater persons, who are challenging the appropriation arranges. There is another gathering, likewise containing specialists, journalists and theater persons, supporting the arrangements, saying it would do a considerable measure of useful for the exhibition, notwithstanding waxing persuasive on online networking.

Interestingly enough, these are individuals who have regularly held hands to lead a few common challenges and walks in the city of Bengaluru. For example, both sides walked together to dissent the state government's arrangements of devastating the glorious nineteenth century Balabrooie Guest House and transform it into an administrators' club. Be that as it may, the city's intellectual elite got the legislature to withdraw the arrangement and spared the building.

They have now turned their thoughtfulness regarding the 40-year-old VAG, part of the three historical center complex which likewise contains the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM) and the Government Museum, Bangalore.

At the point when the takeover arrangements were uncovered in the Legislative Assembly, resistance parties blamed the administration for area get. The Kannada and society service shot off a letter to the tourism service, saying the VAG went under its domain and not under the tourism ministry's.

Access to the VAG is through the Government Museum, an amazingly excellent Bengaluru point of interest, regularly mixed up for the VAG. A ticket for the administration exhibition hall costs Rs 4, which incorporates passage to the VAG also. Walking around the historical centers lets one take a gander at the VAG and the peaceful Lotus lakes, a charming apathetic morning craftsmanship experience. Maybe you will see works of a youthful craftsman or two in the exhibition above and get a cool deal. You might likewise end your visit sitting on some curious seats on the lovely gardens and look at more models as you snack through a set-dosa and channel espresso.