Which Main? What Cross?: Hosur Rd.

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November 24, 2012

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June 23, 2009

Off Marigowda Road, Arekempanahalli

The water cycle

Long before the biblical David slew Goliath with a stone, our ancestors are said to have walked across continents with their blunt stone implements and flint stones, burning and killing 'mega fauna'. However, we don't need such old fashioned tools anymore, we just have to use Thomas Crapper's useful invention to kill what remains.

I found this wall in a studio that's housed in a scrapyard, which like all other scrapyards is situated on the banks of a Nullah. This one, the drain that starts from Lalbagh and flows east.

May 24, 2009

Hosur Road (Johnson Market)

It's a few meters from the choked Hosur Road, but miles away from its hustle and bustle. And if you want to calm you nerves before you begin a day at work, park your vehicle on Leonard Lane, and elevate your mood with a mixture of caffeine and sugar high, only a sweet Sulaimani can provide.

Good mornings begin with a glass of Ikram's hot brew at Johnson Market.

Ikram at work.

The Which Main? What Cross? The Exhibition - Is on until May 31st.

F&B Restaurant, Papanna Street, St Marks Road (on the right, soon after SBI).
Ph: 080 - 40 333 888

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May 13, 2009

Hosur Road (Electronics City)

Temple of modern India

Thank you Chacha Nehru. Thanks to you, throughout independent India's short history, every free market thug, non aligned despot, communist looter, or self proclaimed king who visited Mera Bharat Mahaan using their tax-payers' money have been dragged to Bangalore to visit the temples of modern India. For a long time, the itinerary usually involved a visits to the industrial plants of the Garden City - HMT, HAL, BEL, and the other possible combinations of the shabd mala. This was usually followed by a trip to Lalbag to plant a sapling that lasted a little longer than their visits.

While the visitor profiles haven't changed much, Benglur has. The only difference is that they are now dragged to Infosys at Electronics City. And if they plant a sapling, it's usually within its green campus.

And the pictures you see above are outside the campus. That's the Hosur Road as seen on the reflective walls of the Infosys building. I think that it would be a good idea to make the visitors plant saplings on Hosur Road.

The Which Main? What Cross? The Exhibition - Is on until May 31st.

F&B Restaurant, Papanna Street, St Marks Road (on the right, soon after SBI).
Ph: 080 - 40 333 888

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April 29, 2009

Hosur Road

Side-By-Side.

The teachers of the Government School in what was once a small village next to National Highway No 4 have to shout a lot louder to have their voices heard above the honks and clanks of the passing traffic and construction equipment. That's because they don't have classrooms for all their students.

But we can do more than just shout about it using Idea: Adopt a school.

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March 17, 2009

Hosur Road, Adugodi

A shepherd and his flock refuse to give up even though the concrete jungle has eaten up all their grazing fields.

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January 31, 2009

Hosur Road

Discovered! A new urban animal species.
And i'm not joking. A new species of ants was actually discovered within Bangalore city limits in 2006 at IISc. The ant species is named after the city and is called Dilobocondyla bangalorica. And if you are crazy about ants, and if you live in Bangalore or anywhere on the Deccan peninsula, this colourful, informative and easy-to-use book should be your bible - On A Trail With Ants: A Handbook of the Ants of Peninsular India by Ajay Narendra & Kumar SM. To order your copy, email: antbook.india@gmail.com