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Taming the bull – on cycle and on foot!

Our des­ti­na­tion: Nandi Hills, located about 60 km north of Ban­ga­lore and about 4800 ft above sea level. On top was Tipu Sultan’s sum­mer retreat and the remains of Tipu’s fort still remain. Tipu’s Drop, a 600 metre high cliff face, where pris­on­ers were hurled down the precipice when the king was really angry. Not […]

The purrfect pose

The prac­tice of the Surya Namaskar touches all aspects : body, mind and soul. I par­tic­u­larly like this exer­cise as it’s a great way to stretch parts of the body which nor­mally don’t get much action. :-p

Right on “Trek”!

So a year or so ago, I was pre­sented with a Her­cules bicy­cle. It’s a really reli­able cycle and stood me in good stead over quite a few long trips that I made. Of course, by the end of the trip, every mus­cle of mine would be strained, but at least I was get­ting some […]

Day 1, 2 & 3

It was pretty hec­tic the last two days. Peo­ple have been stream­ing in through the day. Lots of friends (and lots who promised didn’t turn up, but that is always expected!). Some nice sur­prises, peo­ple who came in through this blog and Ban­ga­lore Met­blogs also. The Slimes refused to fea­ture us, and we didn’t get […]

Potter, potter, make me a …pot!

Some­where in the bow­els of Fraser Town is a non-descript place called Pot­tery Town. It’s not really a town, just a street that houses about 30 pot­ter fam­i­lies. And have been for quite some time now. Appar­ently, Pot­tery Town was born when the Gov­ern­ment gave 60 pot­ters a des­ig­nated area on a 30-year lease. Over the years, the potter’s days of glory has declined and many of the new gen­er­a­tion don’t want to take it up.

Sensible advice, come lately!

So here’s some seem­ingly good advice, I should have received about 5 years ago!

Dance, baby, dance!

When I was in the ninth stan­dard or so, I decided to try my hand (and feet) at clas­si­cal danc­ing. There was a dance teacher in school called Mrs Dhin­gra, who would take classes at her home. I bravely enrolled.

Things to do on Saturday morning

On a cool Sat­ur­day morn­ing, we decided to do some shoot­ing at Lal­bagh. Not to worry, folks. No crim­i­nal activ­i­ties were indulged in here. And no insects were harmed in the process either.

Photos on flickr

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