On the way back from Sira, I just clicked this message on the back of a truck as it intrigued me...


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When prashanthchengi was tending his bike, he asked me to take this snap of the cycle gears:


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Though the bird count at the Bannerghatta Zoo area was on the low side today (this seemed to be more of an "audio" than a "visual" day, with many more birds being heard than seen!)...we did see a lot of interesting stuff as usual. Here's one:


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I think this was 1975.


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Tbanks to Karthik and Priya....and especially to Karthik's mother,Smt Saraswathi.... I visited this wonderful old temple yesterday.

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Here's the short video I took, where the priest is chanting the lineage of the Goddess:

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What a wonderful city I live in.... that has so many jewels tucked away here and there!

I was mightily tickled by this one:


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As I opened the front door, this HOUSE FINCH (thanks for the correct id, yathin ) greeted me in the little tree right outside, with its bright, beady eyes...


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The visit to Hampi was undertaken as a postscript to the Daroji visit; but it is such a huge complex, that I realized very quickly that I was not going to do much more than just scratch the surface of this World Heritage Site. So here are some of the highlights of the trip ( Read more... )

After my post on Shivaji theatre,kshah said that after something has outlived its usefulness, it is better that it is replaced by the next, more useful thing ( Read more... )