We went on a nature/birding walk to Kalena Agrahara today, and skirted the lake at IDBI Bank Layout. I was amazed to see several Nano cars parked, and rusting in the monsoon weather.


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One of the results of building flyovers to ease traffic in our city is that the spaces underneath them are often a kind of wasteland. In an effort to address this,

Jaaga DNA

the design arm of Jaaga, co-ordinated with

Brihat Bengaluru Mahangara Palike (BBMP) to create art in the spaces under the Hebbal flyover, whereby the common citizen was ( Read more... )

I've been prompted to think about this by the fact that a company which has been doing wedding catering was, a few years ago, at the top of the list that people recommended, and everyone wanted them to cater for the weddings in their own families. From this position, I find that today, no one wants to use them at all. There were several incidents I ( Read more... )

I had got the go-ahead from Citizen Matters to do an article about the Tour Of Nilgiris initiative that my cyclist friends in Bangalore have put together in a most professional way.

But..later, I was told that Hari Shenoy, who is going on the tour, will be writing an article, so I need not write one. :(

Details of the Tour Of Nilgiris are

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Opened the Hindu Metro Plus to find an article on rohan_kini and his friends, not about the Bums on the Saddle start-up (though that is laudable in itself) but about his initiative to plant more trees in Bangalore .

I wish we had thousands of young men like these in our city!

Here's rohan_kini's entry about an initiative by two young men to publicize the merits of cycling, and the dangers of global warming ( Read more... )

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First of all, here is the beauty of Bannerghatta National Park at sundown:


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