“Kannada Barutha??” — came as a forward mail to me

I Think the guy who wrote the below article which came as a forward mail asking to follow the forward tradition, is really upset of what he feels is a big problem.
Read On..
Aaaah! I am sure most of you in Bangalore would have heard this, but what is “kannada barutha?” here it goes. Bangalore the [...]

Veg Borger!!

A new dish on the cards…

For a Cause

It probably started with the trees on Mahatma Gandhi Road, but the trend has continued….
Once upon a time, the Bangalore administration was known for designing beautiful layouts, with the streets not being just streets but avenues…avenues are tree-lined streets, by definition. And Bangalore is one of the few cities in the world where imagination was [...]

Bangalore from Long Long Ago….

850 AD:  ‘Bengalooru’ appears on Mauryan empire milestone
1015: Chola Empire takes over City Veera Ballala II calls it ‘Benda Kalooru’ or ‘Town of Boiled Beans‘ (after a poor woman feeds him beans in the forest)
1537: Kempe Gowda I designs City as it exists today. (KG II builds the 4 towers)
1638: Shahaji Bhonsle (Shivaji’s [...]

Did u Know!!??

Did you know? The first international technology park was set up in Bangalore in 1994 that provided all kinds of facilities for global and domestic companies dealing with electronics, telecom, computer hardware and software
 Avinash A Deshpande of Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, and Joanna M Ranklin of University of Vermont, USA, created a weather map of radio-signal-emitting [...]

City Paused for 3 Hrs!!

A thriller innings by Yuvaraj on Wednesday and a victory to add spice to the craze, what more does it take to get people glued to their TV sets on a day where India is playing another crucial match! And not to forget, we are a Cricket Crazy nation.
21:30  was the time and i could here not any engines, could [...]

Police Story!!

The below script is the actual conversation between a citizen and a cop, translated to English.
Date: 14th August 2007 (the eve of 60th Independence day)
Place: Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bengaluru
Situation:
Big Brother parks his bike right below the “No Parking” Sign board.
And why? To fine the people who have parked their vehicles in the “No Parking” area [...]

No More Procrastination!!

[After publishing the Article "Procrastination", Vinay approached the BMP and the Highway authority, who took interest in patching up the service road. Interesting!!]
After a long wait and and fight, the highway authority woke up and started working!
Now the road is getting a face lift…

Would the road be fixed if there was no noise about it?? [...]

Procrastination

[This was the condition of the service road till 27th July 07, article by Vinay]
This is the how the road is right in front of our Hewlett-Packard office in Yeswanthpur. The condition is going from bad to worse and still there is no changes being done!!! This photo was taken at 11:00 hrs today and [...]

Somebody Stop Me!!!

This was the scene in front of our office, 17th ‘H’ Main, Koramangala 6th Block. BANGALORE.
The drain chamber that went for a toss, started flooding the entire street with, u know what…!!!All the IT companies in the lane lodged a complaint to fix the crap, but our BMP was so dam busy that they could [...]