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Showing posts with label Churches. Show all posts
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September 1, 2009

Noronha Road



Feast time at Shivajinagar

June 3, 2009

Platform Road / Vatal Nagaraj Road





The Power Lines under which the Venus Circus tent was erected. 
  The only memories I have of the first circus I visited are that of its charred remains that I saw in the newspapers in the following days.  It erased everything that I remembered of the first circus experience and replaced it with imagined screams of children trying to flee the inferno. About 60 (0fficially) of them, most of the them children, were killed in the fire and the stampede that followed at the Venus Circus, in February 1981. That was because the tent was erected under the power lines shown above. 


It took years for Bangalore to recover from that tragedy. No circuses were allowed to perform in the city for a long time. And the place where the Venus Circus stood is silent and barren to this day, as if mourning for all the little lives that perished on that Black Day in February, 1981. 










Next to where the Venus Circus tent stood is an old Lutheran Church, which does not seem to have enough people attending these days. It was probably built for railway employees from an earlier age, who lived in the Railway Colony, a short walk away. The people who live closest to the church today are the residents of a tiny slum, behind the Church.The doors and windows of the homes in the slums are turned away from the open area where the Circus tent once stood. 







However, the residents of the slum prefer to pray at the many little shrines that surround the Chruch. Even those who pray at the Church seem to prefer the small shrine with Bibles in Kannada, Tamil and English placed outside. Together, they form the unoffical memorial for the people who died in the fire.  

 

September 4, 2008

August 16, 2008

Cunningham Road



The Seventh Day Adventist church

August 11, 2008

St. John's Road



St Francis Xavier Cathedral

January 19, 2008

A Church. Hospital Road, Shivajinagar.

Why are most buildings, even homes, from the early part of the 20th Century built as if they are ready for a siege? Decorations?

Like Bangalore Autodrivers I can only take you to places I like to go.

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