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new begin­nings. new year., orig­i­nally uploaded by anitabora.

Wish­ing all of you vis­it­ing JALS an absolutely gor­geous 2005. This beau­ti­ful sight I encoun­tered in Hampi on Christ­mas Day has remained entrenched in my mind.
With all the tragic […]

Suman has started Tsunami Help India where one can pub­lish any related infor­ma­tion via email. 
Sulekha has also started a fund along with AID. 
This from BBC: The Indian gov­ern­ment has announced plans for installing a tsunami early warn­ing sys­tem in the wake of the Indian Ocean dis­as­ter.
Google has this page with links on how you can help with […]

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All in a day’s work!, orig­i­nally uploaded by anitabora.

The sun sets over Ban­ga­lore. A view from the ter­race in my build­ing. In the mid­dle is the moon also vying for attention.

Flick­er­ing in the wind

Orig­i­nally uploaded by anitabora.

Some nice words that struck a chord, in these hard times. 
A Lit­tle Step
It’s a moon­lit night, beside a lake
Stars are shin­ing bright, magic in the air
Peo­ple all around, smiles you see
Peo­ple that you love
You’re not so sure its real, too good […]

Accord­ing to the TOI today, around 24000 words have already been writ­ten about the tsunami tragedy and I prob­a­bly shouldn’t add to the count. I have been at a loss for words. Switch­ing on the tele­vi­sion after com­ing back from a trip to Hampi on Sun­day and watch­ing the pic­tures and hear­ing the news headlines […]

And so I met another Ban­ga­lore blog­ger — Suman Kumar. A point he made emphat­i­cally was not being listed in my blogroll. Which I have fixed since then, Suman, if you’re read­ing this :)
In the mid­dle of a gar­gan­tuan 7-course meal at Shiok, Suman gave us his fun­das on top­ics as diverse as cor­po­rate blog­ging, the MMS […]

Lighted up

Orig­i­nally uploaded by anitabora.

Dur­ing the Ban­ga­lore Habba, the palace looked espe­cially pretty, dec­o­rated with lights. Last year, the cel­e­bra­tions hap­pened against this back­drop. 
This year, how­ever, they con­structed the stage on the other end of the ground, so to look at the palace I had […]

Dance like a man

Orig­i­nally uploaded by anitabora.

Prior to their depar­ture for the Deaf Olympics in Jan­u­ary 2005 in Aus­tralia, Astad Deboo and his troupe have been per­form­ing in dif­fer­ent cities includ­ing Chen­nai, Ban­ga­lore, New Delhi and in Mum­bai. 
Got a chance to watch him in action […]