Karnataka
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Go Gokarna Gone!
Alright, it has been a long time since I wrote anything here. I have a couple of blog posts in drafts, one on the Ramzan Food Walk in Bangalore and the other one on Top Bollywood Songs of 2013. These are now more like once in a year blog posts, similar to the one on Continue reading
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Celebrating Christmas in Bangalore: 2012 Edition – Part I
Well, nothing fancy about the 2012 Edition bit in the title. It isn’t that I’ve been celebrating Christmas (while being in Bangalore itself) over the previous years and this post is about the celebrations in 2012. Couldn’t think of a better title and hence the title, and this needless explanation at the beginning of the Continue reading
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The Tipu Sultan Trail & The Story of Indian Riches
It all started with Harsha mentioning one day about the nine forts or the Navadurgas that Tipu Sultan built around Bangalore-Mysore. And long before trekking became as fashionable as it is now, we were traveling to interesting places around Bangalore digging (not literally) for stories and nuggets of history. In fact, a lot of the popular Continue reading
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You Can Call Me On My Mobile Phone
No wonder they call it the Xtreme Sports Bar. Because we visit that place bar bar (not just because it’s a bar) and extreme things happen while we are there. For example, Zee Sports is the channel they were playing on the TV screens the first time we went there. And why not, doesn’t that Continue reading
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And Then One Voted
What I had to go through to get my voter ID card will take up two and a half blog posts, but after having cast my vote now, I feel it was worth all the effort. Here’s to Indian democracy – Wrong finger? Thank you very much, DNA. Huh. Old Airport Road, Bangalore at 6:45 Continue reading
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The Trip To Talakadu
Photos from the trip to Jaladhama, on the banks of rivers Kaveri and Kapila at Talakadu, about a couple of hours drive from Bangalore. Flower Power Photos taken during the breakfast stop-over at the Kamat Upachahra on Mysore Road. Scattering of Light? Barb Wire? Photos of the fields on the way – the Well Fielded Continue reading
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Mysore Dasara Trip 2008 Or Why I Can Now Die A Happier Man – I
The Theory of Happening Trips has been proved once again. That the best trips are those which are decided at the spur of the moment with minimum fuss about the planning, stay, travel and the company. And that the ones that are planned and thought over, over and over, never quite happen. The Mysore Trip Continue reading
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Sri Lanka, Lakshadweep or Kashmir?
It’s either the top or the bottom, and nothing in between. Before you start getting any ideas about this tongue in cheek(or tongue in whatever else) remark, a clarification that the remark is an observation about the options for a possible trip towards the end of this year with Pole. 2008 has been a fairly Continue reading
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Koncerned About Karnataka
No, this is not about an Ekta Kapoor serial on Karnataka, but a really concerning phenomenon which could have a potentially adverse effect on the relatively clean politics environment in Karnataka. Outlook carries an article by Sugata Srinivasaraju on the rise of the Reddy brothers in such a very short time from being nowhere on Continue reading
Nikhil Kulkarni 