India, April 22 -- Last week, a lovely new cultural space called Sabha officially opened its doors to Bangalore. Except it isn't new at all. Located on Kamaraj Road in the heart of the city, Sabha, now lovingly restored by the Ammini Trust, was originally the Chaturveda Siddhanta Sabha (CVS) School, a co-ed Tamil-medium school established over 150 years ago under the aegis of the RBANM's Educational Charities, founded in 1873. To this day, RBANM's runs nine different educational institutions, focused, as per its charter, on serving low-income, first-generation learners in marginalized communities around the Ulsoor area. The letters RBANM, as many old Bangaloreans who grew up in the Cantonment know, are the initials of the 19th century mer...