Despite already being a popular tourist attraction, Little India is getting a push with new community spaces and its own online marketplace. Two unused plots of land in the precinct will be set aside for community activities over the next seven months to make the area even more vibrant, in a pilot project organised by Lisha and supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). A stage and art installations such as colourful statues of cows and trees with umbrellas have been put up at the two fields along Clive Street and Hindoo Road. Each month, community groups will organise performances and activities there based on a theme. “Little India is a very important precinct in Singapore,” said Mr Kenneth Lim, STB’s director of cultural precincts development. “We are constantly trying to find ways to see how we can engage our visitors, whether they are tourists or locals.” Meanwhile, consumers wary of weekend crowds in Little India can look forward to shopping online for clothes, groceries, garlands and spiritual items such as joss sticks commonly found in the precinct.... Continue Reading