Which Main? What Cross?

Benglur Street Fashion.

It's been raining all night and a day can't get duller than what it's today. But the vegetable mandi at Kalasipalaya is bustling...

Apply glue Crumple Paste Sandalwood Friday Release Series : Sticky Fingers Finally caught up with the guy who does one of the most important...

Surviving Trades Of Benglur - The metal cutters.  Meet Muthu. For 30 years he has been working in a small workshop that's next to the Ka...

Garden City Express.  They are the moving steel canvasses of India. And the private buses that connect Benglur with neighbouring towns and ...

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon (My village lies by the River Ganges) Chai Stop inside Kalasipalaya Truck Terminus.  Cheap cigarettes, 1 Rupee phone ...

Benglur Special: Gardener Barber. Is it because their job involves chopping, trimming, cutting and shaving that almost all barbers across th...

Welcome to Hotel Hayath Road.  This is a country where a majority lives for about a dollar or two a day. A dollar is worth about 50 Indian R...

The city dwellers among us overestimate the importance of time. We take pride in complaining that there are only 24 hours in a day. And envy...

It's not just our own skins that we subcontinentwallas love pale white. That's the skin colour we prefer with our horses too. At a w...

Chubby Chamundeshwari. 

For the best deals in steel furniture, head for the this galli in Kalasipalayam filled with sheet metal workshops. Ask for Mariswamy Mutt., ...

Please check out a photostory about Kalasipalaya I did for Bangalore Citizen Matters  here

'What garden? What city?' Any Bangaloreans here who remember that bumper sticker message from the 80s?

Resting in pieces. Yezdi bikes. Here's a song dedicated to the bikes that were made in Mysore Mysore Se Aayi by Raghu Dixit.

Pit stop for truckers and headload workers.