Magadi Road

Like all Jhatka Gaadi stands, the one on Magadi Road is next to the market. The Corporation Market on Magadi Road got the current building in 1954. However, the market and the adjoining horse cart stand existed long before that.

Meet Amir Jan. He's been working here for four decades and he owns a single horse.







The man on the right is also called Amir Jan. He says that he's been plying carts from this very stand for nearly six decades!




Meet the new generation of horse owners. This Horse Cart Stand has 10 horses and horse drawn carts. Business is not what it used to be, but then, they continue to keep going.



After a nourishing meal, the horses are being prepared for a day on the road. Shubha labha.

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Magadi Road

Fragrance of Bangalore.

Like most visitors to this blog, I'm a desktop traveller. We explore the world by meeting people from across the world online. Unlike regular travel, desktop travel allows the people we meet to see the world we live in too. And for me, this blog about Bangalore streets, adds colour to what I have to show about my part of the world. 

The advantage about being a desktop traveller from Bangalore is that I do not have to explain where it is anymore, be it to people from Thailand or Brazil, Eritrea or Bangladesh. While it is IT and outsourcing that has made Bangalore known to the Western world, for people in other parts of the world, their interaction with Bangalore comes from another product they use everyday - Incense sticks or Agarbhattis. Especially for people in Bangladesh, Thailand, parts of Africa and many parts of the near-east and west. 

Shanthamma - Ambassador of Bangalore. 

The Rs. 1,000 crore Indian agarbhatti industry, with Bangalore as the main manufacturing and marketing capital  is supported by an army of approximately 12,00,000 workers like Shanthamma. The labour intensive work is outsourced to women like her toiling away on the roadside like her or in the many lower middle class localities across the city and outskirts. These agarbhattis hand-rolled by Shanthamma will then be taken to small and medium scale factories to be immersed in fragrances, packed and shipped to all parts of India and the world. 

So the next time you light an incense, chances are they were made with care by Shanthamma. 

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Fearless Karnataka. Nirbhaya Karnataka.

Eve-teasers in Benglur have a new excuse - Rama Sene. An organisation that does not have much presence or support in Benglur. But their name provides the latest excuse for goons to harass women here. Luckily, the women of Benglur aren't taking this sitting down. They have started a campaign called Nirbhaya Karnataka Fearless Karnataka to counter the terror women of Benglur and Karnataka have to face every day. Starting with the march to the Police DG's Office, on Saturday, March 7th, between 3:30 and 5:30pm. Details here, here and here. And all the activities related to this movement is being tracked here... online. In Benglur, it has to be online!

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Steel Cobras. Entwined.