Inscription Stones of Bengaluru: Chapter 6. Preserving Hebbal's Legacy

In Episode 6, we follow the building of a Ganga-style mantapa in Hebbal — designed by architect Yashaswini Sharma to house Kittayya's hero stone in the architectural style of the era it belonged to. But the real magic was in how it got built. How to fund it was the key issue. So the team made 3D-printed brass mementos of the hero stone — cast from the original scan — and gave one to every donor. Half the money funded the mantapa. The other half put a piece of Hebbal's history into people's hands. Today those mementos sit in homes in Bengaluru. On bookshelves in Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi. In pooja rooms in New York, Boston, Chicago. Every city a Bangalorean has travelled to. Kittayya, who once sat in a ditch, now travels the world. And the neighbourhood that built the mantapa? It changed too. A new sense of pride. A new kind of belonging. Technology preserved the stone. Architecture gave it a home. Community gave it a future. Episode 6 of our series with the Mythic Society of India is out now. Subscribe to our channel. . . . #Hebbal #Bengaluru #BangaloreHistory #InscriptionStones #MythicSociety #Karnataka #HeritageConservation #NammaBengaluru #Kitaya #TimecraftStudio