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This is one of the main entry points to where I live near Richards Town. It's a small residential layout, off Lazar Road. This view is nice and flattering - peaceful, green, orderly - to show what a nice looking community this could be.Here's a view from the other end of the road, where one vacant site has been used as a dumping ground for years. What typically happens to any site where the owner could be stationed elsewhere and doesn't really make an appearance.At this location, the build-up is close to nine feet from road level. A lot of…

A photograph by Sriharsha Ganjam, a Bangalore-based photographer, got selected as the picture of the week in a very prestigious nature photography magazine. You can check it out on the link below, and hitting on the Picture of the week button on the right hand top. http://www.naturesbestmagazine.com/ or, to see the image directly, (it will be on only until Friday the 24th March)Click here:http://www.naturesbestmagazine.com/potw.php⊕

Sports entrepreneurship is the new mantra among management graduates in Bangalore.With large and small organisations alike looking for a respite from everyday routine, selling sports to them has grown into a promising idea and sports event management companies have started cropping up all over the city; not only as a means of business but also as a great way to spread a lot of awareness about the sport involved. "Sports management in Bangalore is fairly robust and has potential to grow. Lots of national sports management companies are based out of Bangalore and have grown well in the last few…

As I was returning home this evening, disappointed that an interview with a politician was cancelled in the last-minute, I was stopped by a traffic policeman on Nandidurga Road. I thanked my stars as I knew I had all my documents in place in my two-wheeler. He very politely asked me to show my insurance papers and emission test, which I did. He saw my insurance papers and said they were going to expire by the end of this month. "Get it done", he said like a reminder. I told him I had already renewed it and the papers were…

Meet Susheel Alexander Samuel – 22 years old and in his final year of mechanical engineering. From this picture, you're probably wondering what's familiar with the hairstyle... Ghajini? No…and that’s a long story. Susheel Alexander Samuel (pic: Sharath Bhat) As a teenager, Susheel was everything parents put on their wish-list. He was diligent, thoughtful, obedient and totally responsible – even when it came to riding his bike. He would always wear a helmet, even if he was just going down the road. So do bad things really happen to good people? It was 23rd February 2005 - Susheel had just…

On the 29th of March, I went to Lalbagh to join the joint Max Mueller Bhavan /  Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) -organized Heritage Walk. Having taken many people around Lalbagh, I wanted to know if there was anything I had missed learning about....here's some of what I saw.We all met at the 3-billion-year-old (give or take a few hundreds!) sheet rock on which one of Kempe Gowda's towers stands, and marvelled at the range of pre-history to history; we then walked towards the Glass House, where the Lions of the Ashoka Pillar are etched into…

At the Bannerghatta Zoo area, I saw the hinges of a van had been painted this way....Unhinged patriotism is called jingoism...what is "hinged" patriotism called? :)⊕

I went all prepared. Ear phones for my phone radio, comfortable clothes and footwear, a light bag, though I did forget the bottle of glucose. No, I didn't go to an adventure camp. I was getting set to go to the Voter Facilitation Centre. As election fever is running at an all-time high in the city, I wasn't left far behind. The bug caught on to me too. And here I am, joining the bandwagon of those who have been ranting about their journey to get the 'impossible' - the Voter ID card. I am proud to say that I…

My grandparents first came to Bangalore sometime in the early nineteen hundreds from their home village in Tumkur district. Chamarajapete was among the earliest planned extensions of Bangalore city located close to the old inner city areas like Dodda Pete, Chikka Pete, Arale Pete (Cotton Pete) and Bale Pete. It was a popular residential area for many of the upwardly mobile new settlers of Bangalore city.Grandmother, a strong, intelligent, home educated woman, settled into one of the old houses there and began her new life in the city. Bangalore was still a small town and soon she had many friends…

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