Feeling: accomplished Listening to: Green Day – HolidayRepublishing this here from my article in Desicritics.org to set the context for the next post.
Entries Tagged as 'bangalore'
Free Hugs for Valentine’s Day
February 18th, 2009 4 Comments
Tags: bangalore · brigade road · campaign · culture · free hugs · mangalore · mg road · moral police · protest · pub · valentine's day · violence
All Hail
March 30th, 2008 5 Comments
Feeling: Excited Listening to: Nirvana – All ApologiesOMFG, it’s raining hailstones in a Bangalore. After such a LONG time. Wow. And the weather is lovely. I don’t even remember last when there was a hailstorm in Bangalore. Yeah Update: Tried to get a few pics of the hailstones but was unable to. Got some pics of the heavy [...]
Tags: Asia · bangalore · hail · hailstones · India · karnataka · rain
There goes the neighbourhood
September 25th, 2007 16 Comments
A new hypermarket (what is a hypermarket anyway?) or a shopping complex has been constructed right NEXT to my apartments. This is on a stretch of the road which is exceptionally prone to frequent and long traffic jams, on one of the busiest roads in Bangalore. I am so dreading the opening of the place [...]
Tags: bangalore · busy · hypermarket · traffic · traffic-jams
Bangalore Bloggers Meet
July 22nd, 2007 20 Comments
Feeling: contentThe Bangalore Bloggers Meet happened. And it ROCKED. More than 40 bloggers from Bangalore, Mumbai and two from Germany (who are in Bangalore) as well as a couple of non-bloggers (journalists, short-film makers) gathered in Brew HaHa and had a blast. For the first half an hour or so, everyone introduced themselves. And the sheer [...]
Tags: aj · bangalore · bangalore-bloggers-meet · bbm · blogaloreans · bloggers · coffees · purple_haze · short_film · snigdha · social_awareness · sridhar · volunteered
Live from Bangalore Bloggers meet
July 21st, 2007 8 Comments
Feeling: Excited Listening to: Introduction from the bloggersI’m blogging live from the Bangalore Bloggers Meet in Brewhaha. There are more than 40 people here.. Lots of different bloggers from a range of places from India and a couple of them from Germany.
Tags: bangalore · bangalore-bloggers-meet · bbm · Blogging
Fire over water
February 5th, 2007 Comments Off
Feeling: cynicalThe cauvery tribunal has released it’s verdict over the sharing of the water from the Cauvery River between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. This has been one of the most contentious issues between these two states, to the extent of causing extensive riots in Bangalore in 1991 and 1992. The previous order given by the tribunal [...]
Tags: bangalore · cauvery_river · contentious_issues · karnataka · kaveri_river · riots · tamil_nadu · water · water-sharing