‘Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls’

– Rabindranath Tagore

Anjali Menon’s Bangalore Days is a warm, nostalgic tale of three cousins who move to the city of their dreams – Bangalore. Kuttan, Divya, and Arjun arrive in the city carrying their worlds—tradition, idealism, rebellion. Kuttan longs for the safety of tradition. Divya searches for meaning within structure. Arjun pushes against every institution he was born into. 

And slowly, the city opens them up. To contradiction. To complexity. To one another. They don’t abandon who they are, but they soften, stretch, and shift. A bit.  Kuttan lets go, Divya asserts herself, and Arjun chooses to stay. 

Bangalore, the garden city, becomes more than a place. It becomes an idea—a cosmopolitan dream of a society that makes room for multiplicities, for healing, for second chances, for the beauty of co-existing differences—of a society where a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend. In a world increasingly fractured by identity and ideology, Bangalore Days is a reminder of this quiet, radical hope in love, tolerance,  and relationships.