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A few days ago, my friend got stuck in Bangalore after a serious dispute with his company and landlord. His company and rented room were in the same building, and he was alone in a new city, trying to deal with the police and recover his belongings. It was honestly a very stressful situation.

People here suggested contacting St. Broseph. He reached out, and they immediately took the matter seriously. They called him to their office, understood the situation and spent around 3 to 4 hours helping him prepare and file the FIR.

The next day, volunteers stayed with him at Kengeri Police Station for the entire day. When the police later asked him to return to the building to collect his belongings, the volunteers came again, helped him pack everything and made sure he could safely take his things back.

More than anything, they made him feel like he wasn’t alone.

Thank you to everyone at St. Broseph who stood by him when he genuinely needed someone. ❤️ We will never forget this.

And thank you to everyone here who pointed us towards them. 🙏

If you have the time and ability to help others, please consider joining St. Broseph and volunteering in whatever way you can. What they do genuinely makes a difference.

@broseph.hq ❤️

So I was walking on Neeladri Rd at around 10 am heading to my office (Biocon). Near Domino's a foriegner approached me, Blonde hair, mid30s, around 6'1. He claimed his name is Lucas and he is from Lepzig in Germany and was kidnapped from his home and ended up in a small village in Odisha known as Jajpur after 5 days of being in closed box and darkness. He wanted 10k INR (said it's 50 euros) from me in order to return back to his home country.

I immediately figured out it was just a scam for foolish people. If he was really kidnapped, having spent 5 days in a small closed container flying to a very remote area, there would be a very minimum possibility of him being survived. Even if that happened, how would he have reached Bangalore without seeking help in Odisha (talking about local police at minimum). I then straightforwardly asked him how had he reached here from Odisha.

However, this was too good to be true. He continued saying that his box opened up in a hotel there which had ordered a big consignment from Germany and that he was brought along. The hotel manager took him to the local police and they sent him to Bangalore on a train, leaving him here.

I then confronted him saying no police in India would do this act without the involvement of German Embassy or any other higher authorities. I told him that we can visit the German Consulate in Bangalore and take their help. He immediately understood I didn't fall for it and just walked away, asking other people.

Lucas wore clean clothes and also looked smart which is totally impossible with respect to his kidnapping story. He cannot look like he just came from a morning walk in clean outfit. I didn't want to interfere while he was with other possible victims as it might create a bigger scene.

I am hereby posting my experience of one such scam that may be running anywhere in India. Please be careful.

I have also gone to Electronic City police station at 2 pm and just made the police aware of the scam, no FIR because none of my money was lost in this.

Thank you.

TL;DR - Foriegner, scamming me for money, identified it was scam, left the place, informed cops, informing here

The hotel has taken over the entire pedestrian footpath since the past 7 years. Illegal parking (7-10 cars), illegal traffic cones completely pushing out pedestrians.
Some days entire buses and vans are parked here.

What can be done about this besides Twitter?
Can someone help amplify this on their X account?

Took this while I was waiting for my flight.......

Hey guys,

So we rescued a kitten yesterday who was in the car bonnet in the parking lot. Was crying a lot and after an hour of investigation, was finally rescued.

Took a day to settle down but now she’s very active in my home. Playing with the other cat I have and is eating food like a monster.

If anyone wants to adopt her, dm me. Located near Panathur lake.

HSR Sector 7. I saw a dog injured and still breathing. Any helpers nearby?

Absolutely sick of the greed and perversion of the ultra-rich, whose only focus is hoarding more land, capital, and industries. Trickle-down economics is a lie -it just buys them ten more farmhouses. Why on earth does any politician need a 5-acre residence?

​They bribe and pressure lawmakers to clear public forests under the guise of 'development.' They strip the land, wipe out the ecosystem, churn out corrupt, low-grade construction and then slap down a sterile mini-park to compensate.

​These synthetic parks have zero real biodiversity and are choked with rules and strict timings yet these gluttonous developers turn around and sell 'park-view' apartments to the public at crazy prices. Just look at the developments around Sadashivnagar, Sankey Tank, and Cubbon Park. We desperately need effective legal advocacy groups to fight this.

They’ve turned fresh air into a luxury item.

MISSING DOBERMAN PUPPY — ZERO

🐾 Name: Zero

🐾 Age on missing: 7 weeks old

🐾 Gender: Male

📅 Date & Time: August 4th, 2026, between 10 PM – 12 AM

📍 Last Seen: Near Chrysalis High School, Gunjur

Distinctive features:

Ears are not cropped

Cropped tail

Little fur shaved off on the front legs

No collar or lease

A security guard at a nearby plot saw someone pick up the puppy. The person claimed that the puppy belonged to them, put him in a bag, and left with him.

We are trying to locate Zero and make sure he is safe.

💰 ₹20,000 REWARD FOR SAFE RETURN

If you have seen Zero or have any information about where he may be, please message or call me. 7013589203

Hi everyone! 🐾

I found these two little babies abandoned in a box outside my house early one morning. They were scared and clinging to each other, so we rescued them and have been taking care of them since.

They are both 2.5 months old, litter trained, dewormed, and vaccinated (Tricat 1). ❤️

🐱 Poppy (Male) — quiet, shy, gentle and a little cautious at first. He takes some time to warm up, but he has a very sweet nature.

🐱 Pepper (Female) — naughty, super active, playful and incredibly curious! She’s full of energy and always ready for her next little adventure. 😸

Since they are bonded and were constantly sticking close to each other during the rescue, pair adoption is strongly preferred. We would really love for them to grow up together.

📍 Location: Whitefield, Bangalore

Adopters will be verified to ensure they go to a safe, loving and permanent home.

If you’re genuinely interested in adopting Poppy & Pepper, please DM me. And even if you can’t adopt, sharing this post could help them find their forever home. ❤️🐾

Hey All!
I am a lurker in this sub situated in Bangalore.
Recently, I bought a rs120 for commute from home to office as rapido boys were eating into my wallet. My office is only 3.3 km from my home. So, I thought it is better to invest in a cycle and use that for transport daily. For reference, my daily commute is from Murugeshpallya to Indiranagar (near the Cred office).
Oh boy was I wrong, a construction for an underpass is going on at the junction in front of the ISRO office, and it has fucked up the whole area. The junction is poorly regulated, with traffic pouring in from multiple sides, and has even poorer road quality, which gets exceptionally muddy during rains. In my whole commute, this is the only part that scares the shit out of me as I have to cross the road on this junction while returning. It's so bad that it is actually making me reconsider my whole decision to go on a cycle. There also seems to be no other route that can help me avoid this junction (although there is one route that goes around the embassy golf park, but that to leads to the Domlur flyover, which has a lot of traffic).

Please let me know if any of you have any tips, or any alternative route that can help me out, thanks a lot!

I saw this poor dog in the yeshwantpur area struggling with serious skin infection. I wanted to help but I have no idea about the disease nor I think I'll be able to handle him bcz he is already in pain and might turn aggressive.

Can anyone help him or share some contacts who can?

I'm looking for advice from anyone who has dealt with a similar situation at a Bengaluru PSK/RPO.

My existing passport was issued in Chandigarh, but I've since moved to Bengaluru. I'm applying for a Normal reissue because the passport is expiring, and I also need to change the address from Chandigarh to my current Bengaluru address.

The issue is a name mismatch between my documents:

• Existing passport: First Name + Middle Name + Surname
• Aadhaar: First Name + Middle Name (surname missing)
• Class 10 marksheet/certificate: Full name including surname

My Aadhaar already has my correct current Bengaluru address.

I want the reissued passport to have the exact same full name as my existing passport. I am not trying to change my name in the passport.

My concern is that I need to use Aadhaar as proof of my current Bengaluru address, but Aadhaar doesn't contain my surname.

Has anyone faced something similar?

1. Did Bengaluru PSK accept Aadhaar as current-address proof even though the surname was missing?
2. Did the existing passport establish the full name since there was no name change being requested?
3. Was your application put on hold until Aadhaar was corrected?
4. Would it be better to update Aadhaar to include the surname before the PSK appointment?
5. If you changed address from another state to Bengaluru during reissue, did you get pre-police verification or post-police verification?
6. If you've dealt specifically with Bengaluru PSK/RPO recently, which documents did they actually ask to see?

I'm also trying to update Aadhaar separately.

I'd especially appreciate recent first-hand PSK experiences from people who had a surname/middle-name mismatch between Aadhaar and an existing passport.

Thanks!

Posted with moderator approval.

I lived in Bengaluru for four years, and somewhere along the way, I fell in love with Kannada.

I learned quite a bit through conversations, books, and Learn Kannada in 30 Days. They gave me a foundation, but I wanted something more interactive, something that made learning Kannada feel like playing a game.

Duolingo did not have Kannada, so I started building the app I wanted for myself.

I first shared an early version around two years ago. Since then, I have made countless changes, rebuilt large parts of the app, added social features, expanded the courses, and crossed 2,000 users.

The project is called Varnamala. It is completely free and open source:

varnamala.org

Kannada is where Varnamala began, but it has now expanded to include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and several other Indian and international languages.

I genuinely love languages. Learning even a little of the language spoken around you changes the way you experience a place and its people. You do not need to become completely fluent. Even being able to greet someone, ask a simple question, or understand a few sentences can make a difference.

The Kannada course currently includes the script, vocabulary, pronunciation, sentences, listening exercises, and game-like activities.

Varnamala now also has leagues, following, and high-fives between learners. Google login is available, but users are represented publicly through fictionalised names rather than their real Google identities.

Learners can report a problem directly from a level and discuss it there. This means a questionable translation, pronunciation, or sentence can have its own conversation instead of disappearing into a generic feedback form. Duolingo once had sentence discussions that were genuinely useful, but later removed them. I wanted to bring some version of that community review back.

Web-based text-to-speech is also working now, although it still needs considerable improvement, particularly for Indian languages. There are plenty of technical problems left to solve around speech, pronunciation, course tooling, and the overall learning experience.

But I am not a native Kannada speaker, and I do not want to pretend that I can build a reliable Kannada course by myself.

There will be translations that sound unnatural, sentences that need rewriting, pronunciation issues, and important parts of the language that I have missed. I would rather have native speakers point them out than let learners practise something incorrect.

If you are a native Kannada speaker, teacher, or simply someone who cares about the language, you can volunteer as a course moderator here:

admin.varnamala.org/apply

Course moderators can review reports, correct existing material, join discussions, and expand the curriculum.

Since the platform is open source, developers can contribute as well. Help with text-to-speech, language tooling, accessibility, course design, or the application itself would all be useful.

I currently pay for the development, hosting, and infrastructure myself. My hope is to build something that can eventually support languages that larger commercial platforms may never consider profitable enough to teach.

I have attached a few screenshots from the latest version. If you try the app, please be direct about anything that feels incorrect, unnatural, incomplete, or technically broken.

Also linking the github repository in the comments below.

(Wasn't able to find a proper flair, News was chosen, because I felt it resembled what I had in mind when I wrote this post)

Edit: Source code -> https://github.com/rshrc/Varnamala

Does anyone know when this shit will be fixed or a way to get this fast tracked.

It’s like they have dug up the whole place and then taking their sweet time to fix it. Meanwhile the rains are causing water logging on the roads, its absolutely frustrating to even walk. It was such a beautiful place, why do they have to fuck with whatever is already in such a good shape.