The singular Majestic circle, shopping streets like Chickpet to malls like Central, suburbs like Malleshwaram, and every other road in the city caught in a gridlock despite the metro overhead/underground unveils the Bangalore populace: remarkably teeming and divergent to the extent that the only cementing factor amongst individuals may be the shared city space.

Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?
-Questions of Travel
Elizabeth Bishop

The students of MAECS, Christ University, seek to explore tales of individual encounters with Bangalore’s public spaces, the narratives that shape and are shaped by the city, taking a political outlook towards even the popular ordinary locales. Backed by literary theories and cultural texts, an attempt is made to understand the socio-political and cultural contexts that dominate Bangalore city and its suburbs.
Shehari Safarnama is a repository of travel narratives, photo essays, critical reflective essays, creative writing pieces and poetry that will capture the city’s bustling spaces that have been witnessing divergent pursuits of past many a generation.