Sarada Sarovar

Photography, 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, […]

Evening at Bhadrappa Layout

We were waiting for the dry puri (snacker’s stop) and sugar cane juice (near big bazaar).

Migrant Construction Worker – Kitchen

Since Tatanagar is a new locality, many houses and flats are in the process of being built. While the domestic help comes largely from Kodigehalli, the construction workers are typically Telugu and Tamil speaking temporary migrant workers from neighbouring states/districts. They live in single “room’ homes and cook outside as well “go” outside in the […]

Tatanagar Trash Issues

In a sense, it is a Bangalore problem. But our trash collection guy is on vacation and someone is deliberately dumping their trash near our house. I think it is someone’s lazy servant who has decided that it is not worth her/his while to carry it all the way to the dump. Garbage is a […]

Be it ever so humble.,

.. there is no place like home! When rural workers come to the cities to make some extra money, they use their familiar hut building techniques and the material easily and cheaply available near the construction sites. The huts of the villages are stunningly beautiful and elegant with the mud and thatched roofs and decorations. They are very carefully built. […]

The rain, the welcome rain!

On the 22nd of April I pleased Indra (Rain) so much that He visited us for 18 hours. I may have simultaneously annoyed Agni (Electricity). He not only stayed out of our power lines for 18 hours, but now plays hide and seek every few minutes. The lesser mortals think it is a cable fault. […]

This country is ours too!

“There are animals in history, in paintings and in books, animals that live in trees and fish that swim in brooks…..”       

Roads for Tatanagar

Work has started to improve the 5th Cross Road of Tatanagar. I am always wary of anything that may increase the traffic in this quiet locality, but I guess good roads are good for backs and vehicles. There are those who credit the new committee, some who credit our dynamic new M.L.A., Byregowda and those who […]

Balamuri Ganesa at Tatanagar, Kodigehalli

Jai Ganesa! With  a curved trunk and a large body, as brilliant as a crore (10 million) suns, make me obstacle free O Ganesa, in all work, at all times!  We have a small temple at Tatanagar. The God installed here is Ganesa. The temple is open from 6.30 to 9 am in the morning […]

Tatanagar, Kodigehalli

Tatanagar is an unusual layout of Bangalore, in its quietness and in its Intelligentsia quotient with many retired professors of I.I.Sc. choosing to live here. The bad roads have so far helped in the isolation of Tatanagar even though, it is so close to the Outer Ring Road. Have a look at the photos. I […]