New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- In typical Bengaluru style, the official website of BLR Hubba serves you pithy data to showcase the sheer diversity of the city festival: 20-plus venues. 250-plus events. 12-plus diverse genres. 10 days of a citywide celebration. And the mind truly boggles looking at the monster-mix of culture that will be on offer at the festival from 16-25 January. Rock music collides with kathak, street food meets heritage walks and video art meets shadow puppetry and AI-assisted mathematics in venues large and small, new and hidden.

"The whole philosophy of programming this year was to give the widest possible choice to Bengalureans so that people can pick and choose what they want to see based on their specific area of interest,...