Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Three Cheers for Three years!!

- BDP, 'Bangalore Daily Photo' completes three years!!
Congratulations to all the BDP visitors, Bangalore daily Photo completes third year of sharing and connectivity via daily photo posts of Bangalore. The milestone of more than 1100+ posts, 164000 visits since inceptions and average 250+ patron visits per day…

Monday, March 30, 2009

Metro & MG Road…

It might now be that late that we can see the metro passing through famous M G Road, the work is in full swing on the MG Road promenade. Though these gigantic cement columns have replaced the beautiful trees the cost paid heavily then…

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Fixing a flat…

In the era of advanced tools and technology, this guys uses the legacy meathod of fixing a puncture by cleaning the spot, applying glue/solution and heating the patch on a hot plate. There are many such small time type shops that operate in the bylanes of the city and earn their livelyhood remaining competitive and afordable.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Rain Tree Blessings..

Lots of rain tree flowers on the car windshield, the sheer biomass this tree generates as blessing of the summer is remarkable. Most of the city roads and bylanes are turning brown with lots of these flowers due to many of the rain trees everywhere...

Friday, March 27, 2009

Happy Ugadi….

May the blossom of spring bring prosperity and peace to you and your family….
Happy Ugadi (New Year)

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Street Light Maintainance..

A modified mahindra pickup-jeep that has a box ladder mounted used by BBMP for street light maintainance. On of the favoirite must watch when I was a kid and enjoy the ladder unfold and person reaches the street light a nostalgic event for sure…only difference then was that the ladders were not mounted on vechiles but had wheels of their own and were pulled by some other vehicle to put in place under the street light….

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Traffic & Melon Metaphor…

The traffic woes, traffic cop and the cart full of melons…both have ajob to do. The afternoons continue to remain hot depite few evening showers and melons come to the rescue…The traffic jams continue as the cop attempt to rescue…

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Wait State!!

Waiting for thr school bus, these kids wait in the shade of a building on the footsteps of a shop for their school bus. They seem to get cought between summer heat and exam times yet managing their routines…

Monday, March 23, 2009

Cooling off…

There are ways and means to beat the summer heat. A chilled sugarcane juice works well for many, the shopkeepers too know that and have mobilized roadside stalls to capture share of throat…the fresh juice helps quench the thirst and provides instant energy too...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Water Day!!

The city is a proud owner of many lakes and reserviors that keeps the garden city cherish its green cover. In recent few years these water bodies are seen shrinking and drying up as the urban population and demands thereof keep increasing.
The few lake beds are now visible and many barewells are getting driedup as ground water keeps depleting… The garden city indeed should get its act together to restore these water bodies and focus on innovative ways anmd means to fight the scarecity of water….

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Don’t Blink. Metro is coming…

The M G Road section of the metro is gaining good pace, most of the columns are in place and are complete till trinity circle….

Friday, March 20, 2009

One for the …

The summer colors are blushing…every tree each pot in the city brings along the shade and shine …

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Dragonfly, in the sky…

Early morning under the clear sky, the dried fruits of the forest fire tree might have atttractd many dragonflies in my neighbourhood. I tried capturing few on the camera but they are swift and small to get a clear shot….

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

BIG-10

City seems to continueously reinventing the trafic solutions to encourage car owners to take public transport to decongust the streets… In next 2 months all 10 Corridors will have Big-10 Bus Service with a frequency of 5-10 minutes, both A/C and Non-A/C Service. ABIDe website for details.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Cover Story…

A lot can happen around the world that gets refelcted on the covers or gets covered!! The closed shutter of a magazine shop says it all…

Monday, March 16, 2009

On the bench...

The global economic turmoil have certainly done away with so many jobs in the city and made the experts sit on the bench, i.e. awaiting projects for the US clients, this picture gives me a symbolic representation of the 'bench' otherwise...

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Bangalore – Weather & Sky…

Sky is clear and partly cloudy making it easier to commute in the afternoons. The city continues to play with the summer with unusual rains activating it’s natural thermostat, the temperature & the low pressure last week raised the mercury above 31-32 C that perhaps lead to the rains cooling it off and might last for few more days…

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Honey, I shrink the lane!!

It is best to avoid the CMH road, the namma metro work has almost completely swallowed the road to a mere small single lane with small pavement to pass by. The work is in progress for more than a year and will surely take another… till then the dust, digging continues….

Friday, March 13, 2009

Block Busted!!

What city is watching now!! The new releases of block buster pirated DVDs on streets for sale. The network seems to be so well organized that the latest DVD is available after a week of its release…

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Holi-day!!

After the Holi-day, the signs of festivities still linger around on the shop displays, left over colors on hands, faces, roadsides and most importantly colleagues getting the home made sweets to office for sharing, I must say still the event lingers on my senses ….

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Happy Holi!!

Holi is all about colors, what best could be symbolic to the festival of colors for this city other than flowers, the Lalbagh nursery showcases best of the Holi colors through the range of flowering plants …

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Back to School..

Exams are in progress for many standards, specially 10th and 12th board exams. Here is wishing all the very best to all examtaking students…
I visited this 40+ yrs old institution in Jayanagar to collect some model exam papers for my son. The look and the ambience of this school took me back memory lane connecting me back to my school far away!!

Monday, March 09, 2009

Fearless Karnataka…

Hoping to get attention to attacks on women (outraging the modesty of women) not just with regard to what is happening in Bangalore but what is happening in Karnataka, members of one such initiative called 'Fearless Karnataka' stages road shows and sent representations to local police. The events were well covered by media y’day…
Fearless Karnataka is a collective of organizations and individuals who have come together to fight assault against women and address the issue of street sexual violence.
More on Metblogs..

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Happy Women’s Day!!

To all those women putting their best in whatever they do for the city, for their families, for themselves…and for nurturing the nature too!!

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Rain Tree blooms…

Green and pink, most of the rain trees in the city are blooming. Once in a year it blooms after the fall along with the new leaves. From a distance it appears they these trees are wearing a pink pullover over shining green leaves…

Friday, March 06, 2009

Drive along…

The (early) morning drive to work, such a pleasure to see empty roads, cool breeze and nice green canopies… though these summer days are hot yet the trees make it better with their shade, this city is truly blessed!!

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Catching up …

Conversations unlimited! Another use of pavements for meeting friends and passing time together. Many call this as ‘Adda’, a place to catch up with friends outdoors besides car parks, roadsides / pavements, few prefer meeting inside the air-conditioned malls to beat the summer heat. All in all the catching up is a must !!

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Summer is the season…

Going solar, seems to be the mantra that saves fuel and such prototypes confrim tha fact that this is the realistic option, this one was making rounds in the Lalbagh catching eyeballs …

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Summer is the reason…

Kids love for ice creams is well known and when they have the best ever reason of ‘summer and heat’ makes their Dad buy them more…here are lucky ones holding the candy bars (sticks) in Lalbagh….

Monday, March 02, 2009

Sunday evening @Lalbagh

More than light, music and action of over 300 folk artists from 28 districts, classical elements and one concept - ‘the fight against casteism ’, that was the show at Lalbagh last evening taking the audience through a journey of human evolution with a depiction of the cause of the casteism. To help large Audience to enjoy the show it was seated on the huge rock face in Lalbagh ….

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Cooling off...

The mercury is rising, the fountains in the public places are becoming heavy crowd puller. this one installed in "The Bay" (RMZ infity, Ols Madras Road)) actually a commercial SEZ but lets public enter it's foodcourt in the evening, with its great ambience and this beutiful small fountain then becomes a leusure place....