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City weather is always perfect to enjoy hot fried bhajjis and aalo bondas, roadside vendors see lot of demand for this quick favorite snack. The varieties include, potatos, raw banana, mirchi( green chilli) and capsicum to name few, these mouth watering delights seen sold at a roadside shop and people enjoying them hot and crispy!!
It’s a constant war between the city corporation and the poster marketing syndicate. Targeting any compound, buildings and even shop shutters for poster displays posters are pasted. The corporations, building owners make a regular attempt to keep them off and clean the area and the very next time posters are back, like a never ending story!!
As the city expands old markets still keep getting both for wholesale and retail buyers, the selling starts typically early morning, the first half sees more action and the noon and evenings are dull and see lesser turnovers. The lanes around the main markets also contribute to the action …
The holy month of shravana as per the Hindu calendar has begun, the month full of pooja and religious rituals as it is believed that gods visit earth in this holy month, thus there is a large demand for flowers for offerings, this flower vendor is all set to fulfill the demands from devotees…
Weekends make everyone visit the markets together with the families doing lot of window shopping, the time is best for the street vendors who stand close to the crowd and display their goods inviting bargains, this one is standing in a hot sun and trying his luck…hope he gets to sell his merchandize well!
Walking around lalbagh, it was hot and sunny. an unusual day after many typical monsoon days. As usual visitors a plenty over weekend as everyone was enjoying their time with friends and families in this lung space of the city!!
Early morning 1n a Malleshwaram, the quite surroundings will soon get transformed into busy world! At times we drive down to this part of the city just to enjoy the ambience, have great breakfast and do some shopping, this area is where you get anything from traditional pooja items till modern brands and variety of vegetable now easily available in other parts of the city…
The grocery charts continue to go north, the upward movement is scaling new highs and looks like people are worried and buying less and less, business is low and slow…
The new term is almost one quarter old and the students passing out from schools attending first PU (Pre-University) year sessions are duly settled with the atmosphere. This shot taken outside one such PU college as students leave for the day catching their transport back home…
Major Worry! Garden city is transforming at the cost of many trees being cut for road expansion, new development projects (like Namma metro). This one on a narrow market road (Thippasandra) gave its life just last weekend not sure why?
The box office is running these fur movies this week in most of the multiplexes in the city, the simultaneous release of global block busters in the city is a routine where once upon time people would wait for months to see them here after the movies are releases overseas….
Being a regular at Indijoe last evening we were delighted to see range of Sizzlers introduced by them while ‘Sizzlers festival’. The food was delightful and tasty so was the ambience and service. The quantity served is more than adequate for one individual and thus we could see families enjoying various Sizzlers sharing them one by one over the drinks till late evening….
Simply put, when it comes to potato’s, majority of the world love them and eat them with variety of cooking options, While roaming through the market y’day I spotted this “Hearty” one seems to reciprocate to the world that “I love you too!!...."
This guava seller has parked his bicycle on the pavement and sells fresh guavas, typical market street pavements host many of such small time seller and people enjoy buying items from them while they roam around these busy streets. Many of the items which are not sold typically in a mega store or a mall are automatically get channelized via such selling which at times is affordable and seasonal.
First choice for hangout! The walk on the famous Brigade road on evenings ( specially weekends) is considered to be one of the first few choices when it comes to hanging around in the city. Though the landmarks of brand battalions keep changing their looks on either side of this road, shopping around and just walking up and down this road is fun….
When the readership is large and the demand is multilingual the supply will meet up the expectation. This paper stall in Malleshwaram area is fully loaded with newspapers, magazines that are local, national and few international brands; few types are weekly, bi weekly and monthly. All catering current news, reactions, articles of interest to the vast readership in the city…
Street shot of the books I use to track who is reading what! Most of these are the cheap / pirated copies but tends to give an idea about which books are in demand, compared to last snapshot in Jan 09 , April 09 and Jun 09 looks like some titles are here to stay…
Billboard on brigade road hosting famous billboard actress Karina Kapoor inviting youth to participate in a brand new reality series on MTV, The show’s not limited to singers alone, it even invites those who can sing or play any instrument to get to the auditions…
Karnataka Wine Board had a concerted effort to promote wine tourism, a very first a three day wine festival which was organized in Lalbagh this weekend, people took this opportunity to test and buy different types of wines from leading wine manufacturers like Grover, Kinvah and Naka…
The State wine policy allows individuals, groups, companies and to organize wine festivals. However, there's a strict no-no to fortified wine (alcohol-added wine) during these festivals. Karnataka has 600 acres under grape cultivation, with Nandi Valley in Chikkaballapur and Krishna Valley in Bijapur with the highest cultivation..
The brand equity of this dish is global, and this city too has been part of its worldwide fanculb. This Tandoori chicken I relished recently ( being a regular) was at “Kund” in Indira nagar one of my favorite Punjabi food joint…
A quick snap of the shelf from a small shop in HAL market catering to snacking specialties, the options and varieties are mouth watering …the display represents mix of demands from various cultures and likes from the state and the neighboring regions...
Wondering through the Shivaji nagar auto parts market is fun, “Any-make, Any-model and Any-part” remains mantra here, I could find some cheap restored / refurbished shock absorbers that were sold in this small shop ( should call it a museums) in there…
Delay in the monsoon this season has forced many parts of the city with power cuts ( reservoir are not upto the mark for hydro power generation) and thus cut in drinking water supply as dried borewells are not ‘charged’ and the municipal water distribution is rationed… only hope that the prayers for rain will be heard!!
Outside the famous Indian coffee house I find this interesting poster, “The coffees of india” illustrating the coffee growing regions and the varieties thereof. An interesting collectible piece for sure…
While work continues to progress on Namma metro catching up with expectations, one of my blogger friend former Bangalore Metblogs author, Ravi Kumar, tracks the progress of Bangalore's Metro project: Namma Metro at http://nammametrotales.wordpress.com. In his bit adventurous style he also clicks some good pictures of the project at this photo blog…
The building martial supplies though not at their peak sales yet remain in demand, many local suppliers have setup their business and delivery mechanisms like a tractor with trolley few laborers in the nearby places…
The climate is nice and cool, this creates a good demand for boiled corns and the carts are back on the streets selling them… the rainfall have still not picked up to the extend that there is a scarcity of water and thus there are few water tankers plying around ( seen in the background here) to fulfill the daily water needs in some areas…
More and more houses have the water storage tanks and thus the need to clean them regularly…this mobile van showcasing the capabilities to deliver capitalized on this opportunity!!
Street-shot of a whole sale tomato deals outside the market, the fresh tomatoes arrive early morning to the market and traders and street hawkers trade them in bulk, intern these street hawkers will carry them to residential areas at the door step of consumers and sell them in retail..
While the evenings are kind enough to grace the city with some showers, occasionally it celebrates with such a great rainbow!! Kids were happy jumping on the roofs in excitement looking at this beautiful colorful event in the sky…
Sunsets decors nice colors amidst mixed monsoon clouds, the rain continues to cool down the city and continues to play hide & seek, evenings are very pleasant with mild showers at times…
City weather is always perfect to enjoy hot fried bhajjis and aalo bondas, roadside vendors see lot of demand for this quick favorite snack. The varieties include, potatos, raw banana, mirchi( green chilli) and capsicum to name few, these mouth watering delights seen sold at a roadside shop and people enjoying them hot and crispy!!
It’s a constant war between the city corporation and the poster marketing syndicate. Targeting any compound, buildings and even shop shutters for poster displays posters are pasted. The corporations, building owners make a regular attempt to keep them off and clean the area and the very next time posters are back, like a never ending story!!
As the city expands old markets still keep getting both for wholesale and retail buyers, the selling starts typically early morning, the first half sees more action and the noon and evenings are dull and see lesser turnovers. The lanes around the main markets also contribute to the action …
The holy month of shravana as per the Hindu calendar has begun, the month full of pooja and religious rituals as it is believed that gods visit earth in this holy month, thus there is a large demand for flowers for offerings, this flower vendor is all set to fulfill the demands from devotees…
Weekends make everyone visit the markets together with the families doing lot of window shopping, the time is best for the street vendors who stand close to the crowd and display their goods inviting bargains, this one is standing in a hot sun and trying his luck…hope he gets to sell his merchandize well!
Walking around lalbagh, it was hot and sunny. an unusual day after many typical monsoon days. As usual visitors a plenty over weekend as everyone was enjoying their time with friends and families in this lung space of the city!!
Early morning 1n a Malleshwaram, the quite surroundings will soon get transformed into busy world! At times we drive down to this part of the city just to enjoy the ambience, have great breakfast and do some shopping, this area is where you get anything from traditional pooja items till modern brands and variety of vegetable now easily available in other parts of the city…
The grocery charts continue to go north, the upward movement is scaling new highs and looks like people are worried and buying less and less, business is low and slow…
The new term is almost one quarter old and the students passing out from schools attending first PU (Pre-University) year sessions are duly settled with the atmosphere. This shot taken outside one such PU college as students leave for the day catching their transport back home… 
Major Worry! Garden city is transforming at the cost of many trees being cut for road expansion, new development projects (like Namma metro). This one on a narrow market road (Thippasandra) gave its life just last weekend not sure why? 
The box office is running these fur movies this week in most of the multiplexes in the city, the simultaneous release of global block busters in the city is a routine where once upon time people would wait for months to see them here after the movies are releases overseas….
Being a regular at Indijoe last evening we were delighted to see range of Sizzlers introduced by them while ‘Sizzlers festival’. The food was delightful and tasty so was the ambience and service. The quantity served is more than adequate for one individual and thus we could see families enjoying various Sizzlers sharing them one by one over the drinks till late evening….
Simply put, when it comes to potato’s, majority of the world love them and eat them with variety of cooking options, While roaming through the market y’day I spotted this “Hearty” one seems to reciprocate to the world that “I love you too!!...."
This guava seller has parked his bicycle on the pavement and sells fresh guavas, typical market street pavements host many of such small time seller and people enjoy buying items from them while they roam around these busy streets. Many of the items which are not sold typically in a mega store or a mall are automatically get channelized via such selling which at times is affordable and seasonal.
First choice for hangout! The walk on the famous Brigade road on evenings ( specially weekends) is considered to be one of the first few choices when it comes to hanging around in the city. Though the landmarks of brand battalions keep changing their looks on either side of this road, shopping around and just walking up and down this road is fun….
When the readership is large and the demand is multilingual the supply will meet up the expectation. This paper stall in Malleshwaram area is fully loaded with newspapers, magazines that are local, national and few international brands; few types are weekly, bi weekly and monthly. All catering current news, reactions, articles of interest to the vast readership in the city…
Street shot of the books I use to track who is reading what! Most of these are the cheap / pirated copies but tends to give an idea about which books are in demand, compared to last snapshot in Jan 09 , April 09 and Jun 09 looks like some titles are here to stay…
Billboard on brigade road hosting famous billboard actress Karina Kapoor inviting youth to participate in a brand new reality series on MTV, The show’s not limited to singers alone, it even invites those who can sing or play any instrument to get to the auditions…
Karnataka Wine Board had a concerted effort to promote wine tourism, a very first a three day wine festival which was organized in Lalbagh this weekend, people took this opportunity to test and buy different types of wines from leading wine manufacturers like Grover, Kinvah and Naka…
The brand equity of this dish is global, and this city too has been part of its worldwide fanculb. This Tandoori chicken I relished recently ( being a regular) was at “Kund” in Indira nagar one of my favorite Punjabi food joint…
A quick snap of the shelf from a small shop in HAL market catering to snacking specialties, the options and varieties are mouth watering …the display represents mix of demands from various cultures and likes from the state and the neighboring regions...
Wondering through the Shivaji nagar auto parts market is fun, “Any-make, Any-model and Any-part” remains mantra here, I could find some cheap restored / refurbished shock absorbers that were sold in this small shop ( should call it a museums) in there…
Delay in the monsoon this season has forced many parts of the city with power cuts ( reservoir are not upto the mark for hydro power generation) and thus cut in drinking water supply as dried borewells are not ‘charged’ and the municipal water distribution is rationed… only hope that the prayers for rain will be heard!!
Outside the famous Indian coffee house I find this interesting poster, “The coffees of india” illustrating the coffee growing regions and the varieties thereof. An interesting collectible piece for sure…
While work continues to progress on Namma metro catching up with expectations, one of my blogger friend former Bangalore Metblogs author, Ravi Kumar, tracks the progress of Bangalore's Metro project: Namma Metro at http://nammametrotales.wordpress.com. In his bit adventurous style he also clicks some good pictures of the project at this photo blog…
The building martial supplies though not at their peak sales yet remain in demand, many local suppliers have setup their business and delivery mechanisms like a tractor with trolley few laborers in the nearby places…
The climate is nice and cool, this creates a good demand for boiled corns and the carts are back on the streets selling them… the rainfall have still not picked up to the extend that there is a scarcity of water and thus there are few water tankers plying around ( seen in the background here) to fulfill the daily water needs in some areas…
More and more houses have the water storage tanks and thus the need to clean them regularly…this mobile van showcasing the capabilities to deliver capitalized on this opportunity!!
Street-shot of a whole sale tomato deals outside the market, the fresh tomatoes arrive early morning to the market and traders and street hawkers trade them in bulk, intern these street hawkers will carry them to residential areas at the door step of consumers and sell them in retail.. 
While the evenings are kind enough to grace the city with some showers, occasionally it celebrates with such a great rainbow!! Kids were happy jumping on the roofs in excitement looking at this beautiful colorful event in the sky…
Sunsets decors nice colors amidst mixed monsoon clouds, the rain continues to cool down the city and continues to play hide & seek, evenings are very pleasant with mild showers at times…