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Deepa Mohan's observations and musings on Bangalore

A morning walk is a great thing for all the senses!

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| | Comments (0) 02 Sep 2010

Sometimes theatre's greatest fans need not be human.

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Arts and Culture | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 02 Sep 2010

How is this address possible?

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Roads and Transport | Jayanagar | Comments (0) 01 Sep 2010

An enjoyable example of interactive theatre, in a musical mode, by a young Bangalore amateur theatre group.

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Theatre | CBD | Comments (1) 31 Aug 2010

A workshop to encourage children to learn sustainable ways of celebrating the Ganesha festival.

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Arts and Culture | Lakes | Children | Banashankari | Comments (0) 30 Aug 2010

Sometimes one cannot understand why something was built....

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City Life | JP Nagar | Comments (4) 26 Aug 2010

A superb collection of old photographs.

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Traditions | CBD | Comments (0) 26 Aug 2010

Another exhibition that I visited at its fag end was one of cartoons, at Midford Gardens (off M G Road):

This was the first time I was visiting the Indian Cartoon Gallery, and found it a fair-sized space in the basement of a building. The cartoons were well displayed, with good lighting. Perhaps in the interests of conservation, and of saving on electricity, the lights were off when we went, and a security person switched them on when we entered.

One of the disadvantages of visiting a show later is the inability to meet the creator, and I certainly would have liked to meet Vijay N. Seth, aka Vins. He graduated from the JJ School of  Fine Arts, Mumbai, in 1968, and started with political cartoons, but diversified into scientific and social themes.

He is one of three Indian cartoonists who are represented in the permanent collection of the International Cartoon…

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Arts and Culture | CBD | Comments (0) 26 Aug 2010

A very useful initiative which is not referred to on the BMTC website!

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City Life | Roads and Transport | CBD | Yeshwantpur | Comments (0) 25 Aug 2010

Spotting interesting messages on autos is a pleasant pastime.

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City Life | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 24 Aug 2010

There are concrete steps that one can take with erring autos..the more we complain, the more seriously our complaints will be taken.

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Government | City Life | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 24 Aug 2010

A women's entrepreneurship education program, that I feel will be interesting.

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| | Comments (0) 20 Aug 2010

We live in the same city but often in separate worlds.

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City Life | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 19 Aug 2010

A festival of Kerala celebrated through its traditional food.

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Local Business | Leisure | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 18 Aug 2010

Something good and bad about the same place!

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Trees | BBMP | Jayanagar | Comments (0) 18 Aug 2010

Dramanon is a young Bangalore-based theatre group whose fortunes I have been following for a fair length of time now, and I have been impressed with their commitment to English theatre, given the obstructions that an amateur group has always to face: affordability of theatre space, funding obstacles, and rehearsal difficulties with day jobs to take care of. They like to choose plays, that, in their own words, "have spunk", and this time, the play in question was Elling, Simon Bent's adaptation of a cult Norwegian film, which in turn was based on a novel by Ingvar Ambjørnsen.

Elling tells the story of two of society's outsiders who, having been released from a mental institution, have to work out how to adjust to living independently. The title character is a prissy self-declared mummy's boy, petrified of the world outside; a man…

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Theatre | JP Nagar | Comments (2) 07 Aug 2010

Thoughts on a walk...

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Urban Planning | City Life | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 06 Aug 2010

I found a caterpillar and a butterfly enclosure in the most unlikely place!

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Local Business | Environment | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 30 Jul 2010

A monsoon expedition that has proved very fruitful in the past

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Education | Leisure | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 28 Jul 2010

It was an enjoyable play for the children of Bangalore and there was a full house.

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Cultural Organisations | Theatre | Children | Leisure | JP Nagar | Comments (0) 28 Jul 2010

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