One of the great joys of growing up and living in Bangalore (and many places in India) is eating freshly roasted corn on the cob, with a touch of lemon, salt, coriander and green chilly paste. These were being roasted for me outside Sankey Tank. American Sweet Corn in a cup with a dash of […]
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Corn being roasted on coals
November 28, 2009Pamban Bridge, Rameswaram
October 22, 2009There are frequent and cheap buses from Rameswaram to Pamban Bridge. Though Autos are supposed to charge Rs 7 per km, they demand upto Rs 30 or 40 per km and are to be avoided where possible. The public support the autodrivers. You can rent somewhat rickety cycles near the temple for Rs 5 an […]
Dhanushkodi (Dhanushkoti) – A perfect beach.
October 21, 2009The Royal Park Hotel organized a jeep for us, from Rameswaram, for Rs 1000/-. Later we located the tourist office in the bus stand. They told us we could have taken a bus to Dhanushkoti entrance and a fisherman’s jeep from there to Dhanushkoti tip for Rs 60. It was too beautiful to take pictures. […]
Sarada Sarovar
October 9, 2009Photography, Authorship and Copyright Notice : All Rights Reserved : Satya Sarada Kandula The vacant sites around my house, fill up with water during the rains and create an eco-system par excellence. With frogs eating mosquitoes and cranes eating frogs. Nowadays dogs too hunt in these waters. And when the fish and crabs grow big, […]
Tea at the Palace
October 5, 2009Photography, Authorship and Copyright Notice : All Rights Reserved : Satya Sarada Kandula The kings’ palaces have been converted to hotels. Some of them have turned to politics but others rent their palaces out to hotels and museums. The Wodeyars were much loved kings. They also gave land to the college where I studied.. SJCE, […]
Giving Books to City Central Library, Kodigehalli
October 5, 2009Photography, Authorship and Copyright Notice: All rights reserved – Satya Sarada Kandula. Most of the folks we saw were reading newspapers and one boy was reading a textbook. But the librarian assured us that people do borrow and read books. So if you are looking to give away books, that could be a choice for […]
Low Key Ganesha Celebrations in Kodigehalli
August 26, 2009This time round, there was not much money to spend, so Ganesha celebrations were not much at all. Also something appears to have limited the loudspeaker religion. Now songs or sounds at all. Creation and Copyright Notice : Images and Content : Satya Sarada Kandula
An expedition to alliance francaise and max mueller bhavan
August 11, 2009We were checking out foreign language courses in Bangalore and we took some pictures!
Yelahanka – Bangalore
August 4, 2009We went to Yelahanka railway station to pick up my parents after losing 3 phone conversations asking them to get down at Bangalore Cantonment. Their winning argument was, don’t bother – we’ll bring ourselves home. The train was late so we had a little romp around the railway station. We discovered temples and weaving machines. […]
Evening at Bhadrappa Layout
June 22, 2009We were waiting for the dry puri (snacker’s stop) and sugar cane juice (near big bazaar).
