Gundopanth Road

Old Thargupet Road + Gundopanth Street

The world's favourite complaint about Benglur is that it's a sleepy city and we are lazy people. And we in turn blame the city's billion dollar weather. But the truth is that Benglur has been a city that went to bed early and was up before the sun. 

For decades, the first things to greet the newspaper boy in the mornings were the blue buses of the many Public Sector and other industries ferrying people for the morning shift and people cycling to work. Time hasn't changed much. These days, it's BMTC buses ferrying techies and most of the cyclists have upgraded themselves to bikes and scooters. 

And if you are one of those who complain about why the authorities here are adamant about closing wining and dining places long before midnight, the answer is that we are Benglureans. We are wired to wake up early. 

Well, most of us at least. 

And here's an interesting set of photographs from the city that never sleeps - Mumbai.  

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Gundopanth Street

Can you look at a banana and pinpoint where it came from? I can't. But for the traders of Gundopanth Street behind KR Market, it only takes a look to 'GeoTag' it.







Like most of the bananas that are sold in Bangalore, these traders came here, over the last five decades, with the bananas they sell. From the rich irrigated fields in Madurai, Thanjavur and Thiruchirapalli districts.







Even though bananas continue to flow in from Tamil Nadu, these days, the supplies are augmented by bananas from the newly irrigated fields of Gangavati and Bellary in Northern Karnataka.






The next time I will peel a banana, I'm going to pause and try to make an educated guess about where it came from.